Our Story
Founded in 2014, Moringa School was born out of a desire to tackle the tech talent shortage in Africa by creating an exceptional learning experience for young Africans. What started with just four students has become one of the continent’s leading EdTech boot camps, offering in-demand training in Software Engineering, Data Science, Cybersecurity, Product Design, and DevOps Engineering.
Over the years, we have established ourselves as Africa’s top tech boot camp, empowering thousands of students to break into the tech industry and thrive in global markets.
What Makes Us Different?
Our Vision
A world in which anyone can create their future
Our vision is to empower Africans with the skills and opportunities to shape the future they envision for themselves.
Our Mission
To build talent and opportunities through transformative tech-based learning experiences
Moringa School is a multi-disciplinary learning-accelerator committed to closing the skills-gap in Africa’s job markets by delivering transformative tech-based learning to high-potential jobseekers; and on graduation connecting them to local and international employers who desire high-quality tech talent
Our Core Values
Collaboration
Accountability
Customer Centric
Excellence
Why Choose Us?
10 Yrs of Deep Employer Relationships
Proven Excellence in delivering market - centric Tech Education
12000+ Alumni Community
TVETA Accreditation
Our Journey + Milestones
Brand Relaunch 2022
The Covid-19 pandemic and the growth of the tech sector across Africa provided Moringa with an opportunity to re-think its campus-based teaching model and overall strategy to ensure it continues to make a significant contribution to the development of human capital in Africa’s tech ecosystem and connect that human capital to meaningful opportunities. Moringa’s rebrand is a big Thank You and a reaffirmation of its commitment to continuously deliver on...
08 Feb
2022
CIO100 Awards 2021- Winners: Education Sector Award
Moringa School was the standout winner in the education sector in 13th edition of the CIO100 Awards organized by CIO Africa in Mombasa Kenya. The CIO 100 Awards is an acknowledged mark of enterprise excellence and celebrates 100 organizations and the teams within them that are using IT in innovative ways to deliver business value by creating competitive advantage.
01 Nov
2021
Winners: Higher Education EdTech Leader 2021 (Kenya EdTech Summit Awards)
Moringa School emerged as top winners in the 2021 Kenya Edtech Summit Awards, scooping the following recognition from Kenya’s industry players: Founder of the Year 2021Most Preferred Corporate Training Solution 2021First Runners Up: EdTech Company of The Year
01 Aug
2021
Filled Our Biggest Class Yet – 225 Students
More than 225 students enrolled for the February Software Development class in 2020. We were so excited to begin this journey with them.
03 Feb
2020
Partnership With Safaricom Digital Academy (2019 – Present)
Safaricom in partnership with Moringa School, Strathmore School and Huawei Technologies launched the Safaricom Digital Academy in 2019, a program developed in-house and designed to upskill Safaricom staff in emerging digital technologies, including cloud computing, mobile app development, the Internet of Things and the agile methodology. In a world driven by AI and 5G, Safaricom Digital Academy aims to teach students innovative technology, coding and software development skills to thrive...
01 Feb
2019
WeCode Project – Kigali, Rwanda (2019 – 2021)
WeCode is a programming training initiative for women run by the Rwandan Private Sector Federation (PSF) – ICT Chamber and funded by the German Development Institute (GIZ). Moringa School was selected as the WeCode implementation partner from 2019 through 2021. In total, we conducted 3 intakes enrolling 136 ladies into our Software Development Course. 83% of the ladies who graduated from the program and reported that they were job-seeking were...
01 Jan
2019
Launched Our Data Science Course
We launched our very first masterclass on Supervised Learning, then shortly followed that up with a full Data Science Course launch at Metta Nairobi. Both the masterclass and the full-time data science program were a huge success.
04 Sep
2019
Launched The Skills Gap Report In Kenya and Uganda with Mercy Corps
Digital jobs have the potential to create significant employment opportunities in East Africa. As the “Fourth Industrial Revolution” progresses, it will create profound changes in the employment landscape around the world. However, the extent and timing of these changes will be influenced by the particularities of individual nations. Moringa School and Mercy Corps commissioned a report which interrogates these issues and aims to shed light on how Kenya and Uganda...
01 Apr
2019
Partnerships with MEST and Outbox
We tested a licensing model to MEST in Ghana and to Outbox in Uganda to increase the accessibility of our courses and learning model to new markets. This was the year that we also professionalized our management team to help us scale into the future!
08 Jan
2018
Partnership With WeCamp Project- Abbottabad, Pakistan
Moringa School’s innovative model to deliver rapid technology skills programs not only provides students with increased employment opportunities, but also increases diversity in the technology industry, specifically for women. Our bootcamp can equip young women with the necessary proficiencies to compete in the new digital global economy. With this track record, Moringa School was contracted on a licensing basis by the World Bank Group to launch a women-centered Coding Bootcamp...
01 Oct
2017
Launched Nairobi Tech Week (NTW)
Nairobi Tech Week (NTW) is Sub-Saharan Africa’s largest annual tech event for product makers, bringing various actors and influencers within the tech ecosystem into one space to exhibit the forefront of innovation and technology. Nairobi Tech Week primarily focuses on tech makers such as entrepreneurs, designers, developers, data scientists, students, engineering managers, and more.
18 Apr
2016
Partnership With Accelerate Bootcamp – Hong Kong
In early 2016, Moringa School announced its first major global partnership with Xccelerate, a coding bootcamp in Hong Kong. Xccelerate ran our course with our high-quality curriculum, teaching methodologies and philosophies, classroom tools and more in their Hong Kong office, where one of Moringa School’s Lead Instructors was based and ensured the curriculum with the classroom experience matches that in Kenya. The class ran from February 6 to June 2,...
01 Feb
2016
Moringa 2.0 + First Alumni Night
As the student numbers were growing, we moved from Nairobi Garage to a short stint elsewhere, and then finally to our current home at Ngong Lane Plaza. This is also the year we launched Moringa 2.0 and had our first alumni night.
05 Jan
2016
Started Moringa Cohort 1 with a class of 5
Our humble beginnings started in 2014 with just 4 students, one of them dropping out in the first week of learning. Audrey Cheng (Co-Founder, and former CEO) had to spend a lot of time in the classroom to ensure that the students had what they needed and the learning was going smoothly.
05 May
2014
Meet the Team
Our success is fueled by a passionate team of industry experts and dedicated professionals who are committed to transforming tech education in Africa. With diverse backgrounds in technology, education, and business, our team brings a wealth of experience to ensure our students receive world-class training and career support. Get to know our leadership, mentors, and innovators shaping the future of tech talent in Africa.
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