Learn · Build · Grow
Challenges
Build. Learn. Ship. Get discovered.
₦5M
₦5,000,000 · approximately US$3,800
Programme funding target
Africoders Future Builders Challenge 2027
Build something that matters.
An Africa-wide, remote-first challenge for emerging builders to turn real-world problems into practical technology solutions.
- Africa-wide
- Remote-first
- Solo or teams
- 2027 programme
- May–July 2027
- Find
- Design
- Build
- Showcase
Featured challenge
Week 9: Demo Day
Demo what you have built or learned. Show your project, skill progress, or learning journey — including your Week 1 goal if it applies.
Featured weekly challenge
Community Poster of the Week
Share something useful. Quality beats volume.
Each week, Africoders recognises one member who posted something genuinely useful in the community. Poster of the Week is currently available to participants with a Nigerian bank account. Nigeria-only: participants must have a Nigerian bank account to receive Poster of the Week rewards. Anyone may join and post; winners submit payout details after they are selected. Members, Africoders Team members, and staff may take part. Staff may join to encourage builders; recognition is for useful community posts, not for volume or spam. This is not a race to post the most comments. Short, repeated, or copy-paste posts do not help. Helpful questions, clear explanations, and honest progress updates do. To be eligible to win, you must post something useful every day of the competition week (Monday through Friday, Africa/Lagos), up to Friday 3:00pm. Join the challenge, then post in the community this week. Staff review quality-capped scores and pick one Poster of the Week. The winner receives a ₦5,000 wallet prize — never automatic from post volume.
Open and upcoming
Active weeks stay on white. Upcoming weeks use a sky wash so you can scan the calendar at a glance.
Africoders Launch Campaign
Learn. Build. Grow.
What do you want to learn or build in the next 10 weeks?
Week 9 of 10 — Demo
Demo Day
- Week 1 — Start: Introduce Yourself + Choose Your Goal (completed week)
- Week 2 — Build: Show Us What You're Building (completed week)
- Week 3 — Think: Builder Pitch (completed week)
- Week 4 — Learn: Share a Useful Resource (completed week)
- Week 5 — Contribute: Help Us Test Africoders (completed week)
- Week 6 — Teach: Teach Us in One Minute (completed week)
- Week 7 — Collaborate: Skill Swap (completed week)
- Week 8 — Grow: Bring One Africoder (completed week)
- Week 9 — Demo: Demo Day (current)
- Week 10 — Showcase: Portfolio / Finished Project Showcase (upcoming)
One path: Choose → Plan → Learn / Build → Share → Improve → Demo → Showcase.
Learn
Pick one skill.
Build
Ship every week.
Grow
Show your proof.
Why join challenges?
- Complete your Builder Profile so people can find you
- Ship a Builder Project as public proof
- Earn challenge badges and reputation after you submit
- Stay in a weekly Learn / Build / Grow loop
Completed challenges
These briefs have ended. They remain here as a record of past work — not the current open experience.
Week 8: Bring One Africoder
Invite one new person to Africoders using your invite link. The referral counts when they complete their profile (username, headline, bio, and onboarding).
₦20,000 prize pool
Week 7: Skill Swap
Pair with another Africoder. Teach each other something useful, then write up what you taught, what you learned, and who you paired with.
₦20,000 prize pool
Week 6: Teach Us in One Minute
Create a short video (about one minute) teaching the community one useful thing — a tip, tool, concept, or technique.
₦20,000 prize pool
AFRICODERS BUILD CHALLENGE #1
Build something useful for Africa. Create a small, practical product that solves a real problem or makes something meaningfully easier for people. You can build: - a web application - mobile application - API - developer tool - AI-powered tool - automation - educational tool - productivity tool - business tool - community product - or another useful software project The goal is not to build the biggest product. A small, finished and useful product is better than a huge unfinished one. Participants should focus on: - solving a real problem - shipping something usable - demonstrating good technical execution - creating a clear user experience - documenting what they built Build something useful. Ship it. Get discovered.
₦400,000 prize pool
Week 5: Help Us Test Africoders
Use a platform feature (Learn, Build, Community, Passport, messaging, etc.) and share honest feedback: what worked, what was confusing, what you liked, and what should improve.
₦20,000 prize pool
Week 4: Share a Useful Resource
Share one useful tool, course, article, video, or resource. Explain what it teaches and who should use it — in simple language.
₦20,000 prize pool
Week 3: Builder Pitch
Imagine you have ₦10M and a full developer team. What problem in Africa would you solve, and how? Write the problem and your solution in 250 words or fewer.
₦20,000 prize pool
Week 2: Show Us What You're Building
Post about a project you built, are building, or built before. Explain the problem, what you made, and what you learned.
₦20,000 prize pool
Week 1: Introduce Yourself + Choose Your Goal
Tell us your nickname, why you joined Africoders, what you are currently learning or building (or want to learn/build), and the one specific goal you will work toward over the next 10 weeks.
₦20,000 prize pool