GRIT Lab Africa
GRIT Lab Africa
GRIT Lab Africa
Building Africa's future through innovation, skills, and grit
GRIT Lab Africa was founded in 2016 by Professor Ade-Ibijola as a social project for training young Africans in grit and programming. Abejide mentors 116 young people across 38 higher institutions of learning in 11 African countries. The Kingsman Academic is an identity that symbolizes a person who is able to transcend the divisions in society, continuously acquire future-fit skills, solve for society using technology, and help others. GRIT Lab Africa is a non-profit program for training such young people across Africa.
Founder and driving force behind GRIT Lab Africa, bringing expertise and vision to transform tech education across the continent.
Focus on skills needed by the industry in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Introductory programming, data structures, algorithms, web, mobile, game development, data science, and machine learning.
Mentees meet and interact with the brightest minds.
United and confident young Africans co-solving with others.
To the founder's network in industry and academia.
Certification of expertise by the founder, a professor and subject matter expert.
Be part of a family across Africa.
Job creation and start-up incubation.
Learning, character, GRIT, with consciousness for social impact.
Forged the smartest, most hardworking, and persevering young people.
Equipped participants with skills for mobile/web pages, video games, etc., with a 100% employment rate.
Paid up to R22,000/month for undergraduates and R37,500/month for fresh graduates.
Brought back 'old-school' discipline in young Africans.
Created a united community of Africans from diverse backgrounds, races, and cultures.
