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The Pan-African Certification · pilot forming
Understand Africa. Get certified.
Free, data-verifiable lessons on what the continent really is — its land and peoples, its history, its resources, its problems examined honestly, and the paths forward. Learn on your phone, even offline. Pay only if you want the certificate.
Free to learn — every lesson, forever · pay only to get certified · a small one-off fee via M-Pesa
- 54 states (United Nations, 2025)
- ≈1.5 billion people (UN WPP, 2024)
- median age ≈19 (UN WPP, 2024)
- 2,000+ living languages (Ethnologue, 2024)
- 30.3 million km² of land (UN Statistics, 2024)
- Sub-Saharan GDP ≈US$2.2 trillion (World Bank, 2025)
- every number in the course carries its source and year
01 — How uni works
Three steps.
One bar of signal.
Learn offline, anywhere
20-minute lessons and quizzes run entirely on your phone: on the bus, in the queue, off the grid.
Finish and get certified
Complete the lessons and the final challenge, then — if you choose — claim a verifiable certificate with a public link an employer can check.
data-verified lessons · ≈20 minutes each · six modules
Why did the Berlin Conference matter?
It set the borders you see today — here's the source…
An AI tutor that knows the material — ask anything, even offline. Answers arrive when you reconnect.
02 — The flagship · free to learn
The Pan-African
Certification.
Everything a young African should understand about the continent — taught from sources you can check, and refreshed as the data changes. Every number carries its source and year; if it doesn’t, that’s a bug you can report.
Course overview
The Pan-African Certification
Built from primary sources, including
- World Bank
- United Nations
- UNCTAD
- IEA
- USGS
- African Union
- Ethnologue
- AfCFTA Secretariat
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The Land & Its People
The real map: 54 countries, borders drawn in Berlin, a billion-plus people, and the languages and cities that shape the continent.
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How Africa Got Here
From ancient states and empires through the slave trades, colonial rule and independence — the history that explains the present.
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Resources & the Economy
Minerals, land, energy and trade — and why a continent rich in resources so often exports them raw instead of the value.
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The Problems, Honestly
Conflict, corruption, debt and governance — examined with evidence and multiple viewpoints, not slogans or blame.
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Tried, Succeeded, Failed
What has actually been attempted across Africa — what worked, what didn’t, and the honest reasons why.
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Africa Now & the Paths Forward
The free-trade area, the youngest population on earth, the external actors at play — and credible paths forward you can argue for.
Practical skills courses — digital marketing, data analysis, web development — follow after launch. Waitlist members vote on what we build next.
03 — The pilot cohort
Be first
in line.
Leave your mobile number and we’ll text you the moment the pilot opens. Early members are invited first — and get founding-member pricing on the certificate.
04 — Questions, answered
The honest FAQ.
What will it cost?
Learning is free — every lesson, forever. You pay only if you want the certificate: a small one-off fee in local currency, by M-Pesa. An optional uni Pro subscription adds an unlimited AI tutor and every certificate. We’re setting the exact prices with pilot learners — waitlist members get founding-member pricing first.
Why “data-verifiable”?
Every statistic, date and claim in the course carries its source and year — and the numbers refresh as the data changes, so the course doesn’t go stale. If you ever see a number without a source, that’s a defect you can report. The goal is understanding you can defend, not opinions to memorise.
How does offline learning work?
With WiFi or signal, uni downloads the course as a small pack — text-first lessons of about 0.5 MB each, less data than a minute of video. After that, lessons and quizzes run entirely on your phone; progress syncs automatically next time you’re online.
Does the AI tutor work offline?
Straight answer: the tutor needs a connection to reply. You can still ask offline — questions wait on your phone and are answered the moment you reconnect. Lessons and quizzes never need a connection once downloaded.
What phone do I need?
Any recent Android — 3 GB of RAM is plenty, so a Tecno Spark, Infinix Hot or Samsung A-series works well. No laptop needed. iPhone comes after launch.
When does uni launch?
A small pilot cohort forms first; invitations go to the waitlist by SMS, and a wider launch follows. uni is for learners 18 and over at launch.
What happens to my phone number?
One thing only: we text you about uni’s launch — a handful of messages at most. We never sell or share it, and we delete it on request: privacy@uni.africa.