Africa’s tech talent accelerators attract students, VC funding as Big Tech comes calling • TechCrunch

Tech giants are more and more on the lookout for tech expertise in Africa, the place the variety of builders reached 716,000 final 12 months, up 3.8% from 2020, in line with Google.

Within the final six months, Microsoft and Amazon have been on a recruitment drive that got here together with engaging provides together with relocation to their hubs within the U.S. and Europe, endearing themselves to the small however rising expertise pool amid powerful competitors from different tech giants like Google, in addition to startups.

This demand for African builders is anticipated to proceed, buoyed by the consequences of the Nice Resignation, which led employers to seek for new expertise elsewhere, and as tech behemoths like Google, Oracle and Visa broaden their operations in Africa.

But as demand rises, the variety of new builders coming into the market is disproportionately small, primarily as a result of conventional training establishments in most African international locations have been gradual to revamp their programs to maintain up with job market calls for and the fast-evolving world of expertise.

However, the hole between demand and provide has unequivocally steered the launch of latest developer colleges and propelled the expansion of current ones in latest months, a lot of that are gaining the eye of worldwide enterprise capitalists.