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Challenges
Build. Learn. Ship. Get discovered.
Featured Build Challenge
AFRICODERS BUILD CHALLENGE #1
Build something useful. Ship it. Get discovered.
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. 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.
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 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 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 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
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 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 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.
₦20,000 prize pool
Week 10: Portfolio / Finished Project Showcase
Show your finished result: a project, portfolio piece, case study, skill proof, or other outcome from your 10-week journey.
₦20,000 prize pool
Africoders Launch Campaign
Learn. Build. Grow.
What do you want to learn or build in the next 10 weeks?
Week 3 of 10 — Think
Builder Pitch
- 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 (current)
- Week 4 — Learn: Share a Useful Resource (upcoming)
- Week 5 — Contribute: Help Us Test Africoders (upcoming)
- Week 6 — Teach: Teach Us in One Minute (upcoming)
- Week 7 — Collaborate: Skill Swap (upcoming)
- Week 8 — Grow: Bring One Africoder (upcoming)
- Week 9 — Demo: Demo Day (upcoming)
- 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 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
Campus outreach sprint
Ambassadors and community builders: bring 5 new learners onto Africoders with a clear onboarding path.
Open-source contribution sprint
Make a meaningful open-source contribution — bugfix, docs, or feature — and document what you shipped.
API in a weekend
Design and ship a small public API that solves a real African-context problem (payments stub, SMS relay, market prices, etc.).
Design critique: improve one hiring screen
Redesign or critique a hiring/builder discovery screen. Share before/after and the hiring signal you improved.
Build Journal: document one shipped week
Write a public Build Journal entry covering what you shipped this week — decisions, blockers, and proof links.
Ship a 48-hour portfolio project
Pick a real problem, build a thin slice, and publish it on your Africoders Builder Passport with problem statement, outcomes, and a demo link.
Daily: explain one concept simply
Write a short public explanation of one technical concept you used this week — for a junior builder in Africa.
Closed: January shipping league
A past monthly league for builders who shipped public proof every week.