Not a course. A working group.
Each cohort is a small group learning side-by-side while building real things. The community is the product — the curriculum is a scaffold toward building on your own.
§ Swahili for “elephant”
TEMBO
Tech · Ventures
A practical tech community for early builders across Africa, learning through real software — still in touch long after the cohort ends.
~25Students across Africa
01Partner school · Embu College
04Cohort in flight
TTV Community
People, with the work
to tell their story.
For TTV students and builders beyond our cohorts. Share your contributions, supporting evidence, and what you want to do next.
You do not need to join or complete a cohort to build a community profile.
Continue with GitHub to create your account or sign in.
§ 00 Why Tembo
Tembo(n.)—elephant. Swahili.A symbol of strength, memory, and community.
Great builders are already here.We help grow the ecosystem around them.
We're a small, community-led program for early builders across Africa. Working engineers share the shape of a real system — how it fits together, how to keep learning together — and stay in touch long after the cohort ends.
§ 01 What we do
A community,
not a course.
Explore our five commitments. Use the buttons or arrow keys when a control is focused.
How we build together
You don't do this alone.
Working engineers build alongside each cohort and make the shape of a real system easier to see. Accountability over assignments.
We stay in touch.
Alumni stay in the loop after the cohort ends. We make it easy to reconnect when life pulls someone away. Some come back as mentors.
§ 02 Values as commitments
Abstract nouns are easy. These are the five things we'll actually put in writing.
- COMMUNITY
Less a program, more a group of people building together.
- PHILOSOPHY
We teach how to see a system, not a syllabus to memorize.
- EQUITY
No degree required. English required — fluency isn't.
- CONTINUITY
We stay in touch after the cohort. We make it easy to reconnect when life pulls someone away.
- HONESTY
Two students in fintech internships so far. No job placements yet — we'll tell you when there are.
§ Field notes
Latest posts
Sep 27, 2026 · 8 min
# Git and GitHub: There Is Much More Than Pushing Code 🚀
When inturacting with code, you will quickly encounter two names: Git and GitHub. Many beginners think they are the same thing: "Git is where I save my code…
By Lewis Mwangi
§ 03 The cohort
Meet the builders from our cohorts across Africa.See all builders →
