Yango’s 2026 Pan-African fellowship puts local talent behind local problems

In Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, six groups of young technologists had five minutes each on September 19 to pitch products they had spent the previous 12 weeks building.

Bloom pitched a solution to make it easier to pay fares on informal buses; Africoded built a system connecting African job seekers to remote and cross-border work; and Harambee developed a waste-collection service connecting households with informal waste collectors. By the end of the event, six team projects and selected individual projects competed…