FAQs

Africoders is a technology learning and builder platform. One free account lets you Learn useful skills, Build real projects, and Grow toward opportunities — Learn. Build. Grow. Together.

That phrase is company language for the same Africoders journey: Learn, Build and Grow under one account. It is not a separate product you have to join. Start from Learn, Build or Grow.

No. Africoders is not a career agency and does not guarantee jobs. It is a builder network — Learn, Build, Grow — with first-party Opportunities posted on Africoders. Recruiters browse Passports; you apply when you meet any required learning. Africoders Business is a separate commercial delivery service for organisations.

Community is the social layer around the same account — the Home feed, Discover, and member profiles. Learn, Build and Grow sit on that same account. Treat it as one platform with a community, not a forum that added extras.

Yes. Creating an account, completing your profile, using the public feed, and following core Learn, Build, and Grow paths stays free. Optional paid tools appear only where they help someone hire, deliver work, or get extra commercial value — and fees are shown before you pay.

Beginners, students, self-taught learners, developers, designers, founders, mentors, recruiters, and organisations across Africa and the diaspora. You do not need a computer-science degree to start.

No. Start from your current level. Learn is built for people who are still finding direction. Ask basic questions, practise, then put a small project on your Passport.

Create a free account, add a clear name and skills, then pick a path: Learn for courses and practice, Build to share a project or join a challenge, or Grow to browse opportunities. Completing your Builder Passport makes you easier to find.

No. You can explore as a guest, then finish your profile when you are ready. The more complete your Passport is, the more useful Learn, Build, and Grow become.

You must be at least 16 years old (or the higher age required where you live) to create an account. Parents and teachers can start from Student Resources (For Students) for younger learners they support.

No. Africoders is built for African learners and builders, including the diaspora. You can join from anywhere. Conduct, proof, and opportunity rules are the same.

No. It is a builder network with courses, projects, and career tools. Africoders is not an accredited university and does not replace a degree.

LinkedIn is a general professional network. Africoders is organised around Learn, Build, and Grow, with a Builder Passport that is meant to show work you actually shipped — not only a job title.

The product and most community discussion are in English. You can still name projects and local context in other languages — keep public posts understandable to the people you want to reach.

You can browse, learn some material, and chat from a phone using the Africoders app. Shipping software usually needs a computer. Start on the phone if that is what you have, then move heavier work to a laptop when you can.

Learn for free on Africoders. Core learning — including courses — is free to enroll. Creating an account is free. Africoders Business and some employer tools are separate and may be paid — the price is shown before you pay.

Yes. Core learning on Africoders is free. All Academy courses are free to enroll. There are no paid or Premium courses. Africoders Business and some employer tools are separate and may be paid. Enrolled only means you have started a course.

Practical skills through courses, practice, and study help aimed at shipping real work. Start from your current level, then move into Build.

No. Courses and challenges are meant to sit next to real projects on your Passport. Watch, then write code, publish a small project, and ask for a review. That loop is how progress shows up.

Africoders does not treat certificates as a core product. Your Builder Passport and the projects you ship are how you show what you can do. If you previously received a course completion record, it remains available to you.

Use the Help Centre for how-to articles, ask in Community or the Learning Hub, and keep questions specific: what you tried, what you expected, and what happened. Africoders AI on Telegram can also point you to Learn, Build, or Grow next steps.

Yes. Community members and discussions can help for free when you ask a specific question.

Yes. On Build you can share a project that needs teammates — or join someone else's work. We do not automatically assign you a partner. You find a fit, agree scope, and ship. Start at africoders.com/build

No. Matching is not a placement service. You browse open posts, apply, or publish your own “looking for teammates” post. Acceptance depends on fit, communication, and the proof on your Passport.

Some are unpaid portfolio work, some are equity/revenue-share, some are paid. Each post should state compensation. If a post is silent about money, ask in writing before you start. Unpaid “trial” labour that looks like a full job is a red flag — see Community Guidelines.

No. Finding collaborators is part of the free Build path. You should never pay someone a “registration fee” to join their project. Report those asks.

Your Passport is your public builder identity on Africoders: who you are, what you ship, skills, projects, and visible progress. Recruiters and collaborators should see evidence — not a CV that cannot be checked.

You control visibility. Public Passports can appear in the builder directory. Members-only and private settings limit who sees your full profile. Never treat a private Passport as content to share without consent.

Share projects you actually built, label forks and tutorials honestly, and join challenges under Build to practise under a deadline. Credit collaborators. Keep demo links alive — invented metrics undermine trust for everyone. Africoders Build Challenge #1 is open internationally. Poster of the Week and the 10-Week Launch Campaign are separate Nigeria-only programmes that require a Nigerian bank account to receive rewards.

Africoders Build Challenge #1 is open internationally. Open to builders across Africa and beyond. International participants are eligible. You do not need a Nigerian bank account to enter or to receive a declared prize.

International winners are eligible. Africoders will coordinate an appropriate payout method with winners based on their country of residence and applicable payment requirements. Payout details are collected after you win — not when you enter.

No. 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. That rule does not apply to Africoders Build Challenge #1.

No. The 10-Week Launch Campaign is currently available to participants with a Nigerian bank account. Nigeria-only: participants must have a Nigerian bank account to receive Launch Campaign rewards. That is separate from Africoders Build Challenge #1, which is open internationally.

Use a clear name, list skills you can actually demonstrate, publish at least one real project with a working demo or repo, and keep activity honest. Empty or exaggerated Passports get ignored.

Use Build to add a project to your Passport and share progress in the community feed. Keep the demo link alive. Tutorial rebuilds are fine if you label them honestly.

Grow is where first-party opportunities live — jobs, internships, freelance, and related paths posted by organisations and members on Africoders. Completed Africoders learning can make you eligible to apply. A complete Passport and public projects still help employers see your work.

Organisations post opportunities directly on Africoders. Required skills are selected from the Africoders skill catalogue. Some opportunities require completed Africoders courses associated with those skills. If you have not completed the required learning, Africoders shows you what to complete before applying. Not every opportunity has course requirements.

No. Africoders helps you become visible and credible. Hiring and paid delivery (including Africoders Business projects) are selective. Free peer help and community participation are not a promise of employment.

Yes, when organisations post them on Opportunities / Grow. Availability changes. Apply with Passport proof, not only a CV attachment.

Reference specific Passport proof — a project, challenge, or skill — instead of mass templates. Members can report spam or misleading “guaranteed job” pitches.

Yes. Browse builders, post opportunities, or talk to Africoders Business when you need software delivery, managed teams, or a longer technology partnership. Community profiles are not a freelance dump.

Through visibility for jobs and freelance work, paid collaborations when a post says so, referrals, and Africoders Business delivery teams when you are selected. Free peer help in the community is not paid work.

Yes. For Students points campus builders to courses, beginner challenges, community, and opportunities. Students still use the same Learn, Build, and Grow account as everyone else.

There is no honest timeline. People who publish real projects, finish challenges, and keep a clear Passport tend to get better conversations — not a calendar guarantee.

Harassment, hate, doxxing, spam, scraping, fake reputation, predatory recruitment, and leaking private messages or secrets. Critique work, not people. Full rules are in Community Guidelines and Acceptable Use.

Use in-product reporting where you see it, or email hello@africoders.com with links, usernames, and screenshots when it is safe to attach them. False reports filed to harass someone are themselves a violation.

Official accounts use africoders.com and our listed social handles. We will not ask you to pay a joining fee, share your password, or move money to “activate” a job. If unsure, ask via africoders.com/contact or hello@africoders.com — not by replying to the suspicious DM.

They are related, not the same product. Aurora is the in-product assistant on africoders.com (Help button), grounded in Help articles. Africoders AI is a separate Telegram and WhatsApp assistant for the same Builder Network. Neither is a login. You can stay anonymous in chat, or link your Africoders account so Africoders AI can use your profile. Linking is optional.

No. Telegram and WhatsApp are channels into Africoders AI. They are not a login. You can stay anonymous in chat, or link your Africoders account with /link so guidance can use your profile. Linking is optional and account-wide.

Both reach Africoders AI. Telegram supports /link and richer bot commands. WhatsApp is the lighter chat path. Neither replaces the website or mobile app for your Passport, courses, or applications.

After you sign in, use Home for the feed. Discover and Builder profiles help you find people. Public marketing pages show the network; the feed is where members post.

Yes. Africoders is on Google Play and the App Store. The app is for Learn, Build, and Grow on a phone — the same account as the website. Store badges are in the site footer.

Sign in and use account settings. For verification, password reset, and notification preferences, follow the in-product flows. The Help Centre has step-by-step articles when something is unclear.

Use Delete account or Delete personal data from the legal pages in the footer, or contact support. We honour valid deletion requests under our Privacy Policy. Some records may be kept where the law requires it.

What we collect and why is in the Privacy Policy. In short: account details you provide, public profile content you publish, and technical data needed to run a secure service. We do not sell your inbox as a marketing list.

Check spam/promotions, wait a few minutes, and request a new code from the sign-in screen. Corporate inboxes sometimes block mail. If it still fails, contact hello@africoders.com from the address you used to register.

Core learning on Africoders is free. Public community, profiles, courses, collaborations, and exploring opportunities stay free. Paid layers appear only for Africoders Business and some employer tools, with prices shown first.

There is no separate Refund Policy page. Refunds for digital services are covered in the Terms of Service (Payments, subscriptions, and refunds): considered case-by-case within 14 days of purchase when the service has not been substantially delivered. Contact support. Africoders Business cohort refunds follow the individual offer, not a site-wide promise.

Africoders Business is the commercial arm: product engineering, modernisation, managed teams, and training for organisations. africoders.com is the builder community. Both sit under Africoders Network Limited.

Use Start a project on Africoders Business, or Contact on africoders.com. Describe the organisation, the problem, timing, and budget band. Community membership does not automatically place someone on a client team.

Open roles appear on africoders.com/careers when we are hiring. DMs that promise a job at Africoders in exchange for a fee are scams.

Help Centre for how-to guides, Contact for support tickets, and hello@africoders.com for everything else. We typically reply within 24–48 hours on business days (Lagos time).

FAQs are short answers to common questions — including copy-paste replies for social DMs. The Help Centre has step-by-step articles (reset password, publish a project, report abuse). Start here, then open Help when you need clicks and screenshots.

africoders.com to join, africoders.com/learn for “is learning free?”, africoders.com/build for teammates, africoders.com/help if you need a step-by-step guide, and africoders.com/contact if it needs a human. Prefer one clear link over a thread of screenshots.

Yes — share public pages, your own projects, and official posts with credit. Do not scrape member directories, repost private messages, or impersonate Africoders.

Email hello@africoders.com with who you are, the audience, dates, and what success looks like. Press: africoders.com/press For software delivery, use Africoders Business instead.

Africoders Network Limited operates from Lagos, Nigeria (4 Oshineye St, Pedro). The community is pan-African and diaspora.

Use the Follow us row in the africoders.com footer — that list is the source of truth (X, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Telegram, WhatsApp, TikTok, Threads). Ignore lookalike accounts.