Injini - Africa's EdTech Accelerator & Think Tank

Injini - Africa's EdTech Accelerator & Think Tank Injini is a non-profit organisation with interventions that support the development of EdTech in sub-Saharan Africa.

🌍 The African EdTech Product Map features a plethora of diverse organisations. Over the next few weeks, we will be highl...
10/06/2026

🌍 The African EdTech Product Map features a plethora of diverse organisations. Over the next few weeks, we will be highlighting some of the companies featured in a 4-part series.

Our first installment spotlights businesses focusing on Early Childhood Development (ECD) and the Foundation Phase.

These innovations include:
🤖 AI-powered EdTech platforms and professional tutoring
🎮 Interactive, gamified learning in mother-tongue languages
📱 ECD learning apps that build foundational skills
🌱 Youth empowerment through biodiversity education

This series will shine a spotlight on the incredible businesses that make up the African EdTech Product Map.

🔗Sign your business up for the African EdTech product map here: https://form.jotform.com/252161539348561

09/06/2026

Meet the 2026 Fellows: Inclusive Solutions

🇿🇦Research indicated that children achieve significantly better foundational outcomes when they begin learning in their home language. Despite this, there remains a critical shortage of early-childhood educational software available in native South African languages.

Lisa, the Owner and Director at Inclusive Solutions, is actively addressing this gap. Supported by the Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship, her organisation is redeveloping an award-winning software title to deliver foundational literacy, numeracy, and science curriculum in local languages.

Crucially the platform is designed with universal accessibility in mind. By incorporating features such as high visual contrast and compatibility with assistive devices, the software ensures that children of all abilities can engage with the content seamlessly. Through scaling this proven educational tool, Inclusive Solutions is working to ensure that no young learner is excluded.

📌Follow our page to meet the rest of the Fellows for 2026

🔗Find out more about Inclusive Solutions here: https://www.inclusivesolutions.co.za/

08/06/2026

How can we realistically scale EdTech tools to reach vulnerable communities that lack devices and internet access?

At the recent Aligning for Action across the EdTech Ecosystem, our final showcase of Industry experts, Kanyisa Diamond from the National Education Collaboration Trust spoke about how EdTech is uniquely positioned to scale diagnostic testing for reading and to supplement the shortage of quality mathematics teachers. By providing targeted data and giving students tools to practice at home, technology can address long-standing gaps in foundational education.

📹 Watch the video to learn more about Kanyisa’s Insights

🔗 Learn more about the National Education Collaboration Trust here: https://www.nect.org.za/

05/06/2026

When Amy Rodger started her career as an Occupational Therapist, she saw the profound challenges parents faced in finding spaces where children with moderate to severe disabilities could thrive. Driven by their struggles, Amy founded the Khanyisa Developmental Centre to provide a safe, supportive environment for incredible children.

Because specialised training for special needs teaching is scarce, many classroom teachers lack the exact tools they need. To bridge this gap, Khanyisa is launching Hope! 🚀
This EdTech platform will empower educators with tailored learning plans and tracking tools, ensuring every child is supported.

Khanyisa’s next chapter is fueled by the Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship, in partnership with Injini. This fellowship actively is empowering the growth of solutions like Hope to build a more inclusive community where no child is left behind.

🔗Learn more about Khanyisa here: https://khanyisacentre.co.za/

🔗Explore more information about the Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship: https://www.injini.africa/edtech-fellowship

03/06/2026

Why is it critical to fully integrate EdTech into educational strategy rather than treating it as an afterthought?

From the recent Aligning for Action Across the EdTech Ecosystem hosted in partnership with Wesgro, Wendy Viljoen emphasizes that technology and EdTech must be fully integrated into educational strategy and funding rather than treated as an afterthought. She believes EdTech is a powerful vehicle for bridging systemic gaps, offering scalable resources to underserved regions to fix foundational learning issues like literacy and numeracy.

📹 Watch the video to gain insights from Industry experts such as Wendy.

🔗 Learn more about Wesgro here: https://www.wesgro.co.za/corporate/home

01/06/2026

Meet the 2026 Fellows: The Marking App Africa

🚀As a teacher, Kabelo noticed just how much of the school day was being taken up by administrative tasks and hours of marking. It is a reality so many educators face, and it takes away from what matters most: valuable time spent teaching and connecting with students. Because there wasn’t a tool out there to help ease this burden, Kabelo decided to create one, and that is how The Marking App was born.

📱The Marking App is an AI-powered platform that marks handwritten tests papers in just a few seconds. Not only does it save precious time, but it also allows teachers to easily share helpful feedback right on the student’s test scripts, bridging the gap where ICT resources might be limited.

🌍The Marking App is part of the Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship, in partnership with Injini. With this support, they are well on their way to reaching their inspiring goal of bringing this game-changing solution to even more classrooms across South Africa and the entire continent.

🔗 Find out more about The Marking App here: https://themarkingapp.co.za/

🌍 106 innovators. 10 countries. One map, and it is only getting started.A few months ago, Injini launched the African Ed...
29/05/2026

🌍 106 innovators. 10 countries. One map, and it is only getting started.

A few months ago, Injini launched the African EdTech Product Map, and what it reveals is worth paying attention to. South Africa leads the way at 62%, but the ecosystem stretches far wider, Nigeria (11%), Ethiopia (7%), Ghana and Kenya (6% each), Senegal, Benin, Morocco, Zambia, and Rwanda are all represented.

These are founders building across early childhood development, STEM, digital literacy, teacher training, financial literacy, coding, and robotics. Across languages. Across contexts. Across the continent.

What the map also shows, clearly, is where the gaps still are. Most of Africa is still grey. That is not a critique. It is an invitation.

If your EdTech solution is not on the map yet, add it. The more complete this picture is, the more useful it becomes for every founder, investor, and education stakeholder trying to understand what is being built, and where.

🔗 Add your solution: https://form.jotform.com/252161539348561

27/05/2026

Is EdTech an overwhelming challenge, or our greatest shortcut to educational equity?

At the recent Aligning for Action Across the EdTech Ecosystem event (hosted in partnership with Wesgro ), Giles Gillett from Nascee shared why we can’t afford to ignore digital tools.

While infrastructure challenges are real, the potential for EdTech to help under-resourced communities leapfrog traditional learning barriers is massive.

🔗 Learn more about NASCEE’s impactful work in the ecosystem here: https://nascee.org.za/

26/05/2026

💡 "When I think of where education is right now and where we are going, we can't even comprehend that without the inclusion of innovation and technology." — Wendy Viljoen, Wesgro

We brought together voices from across the education ecosystem at a recent event with WESGRO, and this quote from Wendy Viljoen captures exactly what the conversation kept coming back to.

EdTech cannot be an afterthought. It cannot be the last item added to a strategy that was built without it. For technology to genuinely change outcomes, particularly for learners in rural and under-resourced communities, it needs to be part of the thinking from day one.

Khanyisa Diamond of the National Education Collaboration Trust put it practically: when you use diagnostic tools to identify exactly where a child is struggling, you can respond precisely. That is the difference between EdTech that transforms and EdTech that gets shelved.

Watch the highlights. Share with someone building in this space.

🔗 https://www.injini.africa/

25/05/2026

Meet the 2026 Cohort: Tangible Games(Leva Foundation)

Not every EdTech solution starts with a device or a data connection. Leva Foundation's Tangible Africa starts with a different question: what does a learning tool look like when it is built for the classrooms that actually exist across the continent?

The answer is offline games, designed so that teachers without programming experience can walk in and use them immediately. The focus is on group problem-solving and classroom collaboration, not individual screen time. Accessible by design. Intentional from the start.

Jackson Tshabalala, manager at Leva Foundation, is part of the Mastercard Foundation EdTech Fellowship 2026.

Find out more about Tangible: https://tangible.levafoundation.org/

Follow our page to meet the rest of the 2026 cohort.

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