DeAfrica's 'Your Journey in the AI Economy' Course Reaches Comorian Learners in a 45-Country Pan-African Cohort

Distance Education for Africa (DeAfrica) sought to bring AI literacy training to professionals across the African continent, including in small or fragile settings such as the Comoros and South Sudan.

DeAfrica ran a seven-week distance course, 'Your Journey in the AI Economy, Skills for Work, Learning, and Life,' between 24 February and 7 April 2026, bringing together 1,068 participants from 45 African countries in a shared digital learning space. The curriculum emphasises judgment and decision-making, framing AI as a 'thinking partner' rather than a replacement technology, for participants including government librarians, humanitarian analysts, teachers, artists and district agriculture directors.

Participation ranged from Botswana, which alone supplied 408 learners (nearly 40% of the cohort), Kenya (255) and Mauritius (63), down to learners from the Comoros and South Sudan, some of whom represented their entire country alone in the virtual sessions.

Reporting documents individual participant testimonies — such as a Kenyan educator launching peer support circles and a South Sudanese analyst applying AI to conflict early-warning work — but no aggregate test scores, completion rates or follow-up outcome data for Comorian or other participants are published, so the course's measured learning impact is not yet established.