Nigeria-based talent accelerator, Andela will begin training its first cohort in Kenya, after initial talks of taking its operations Pan-African.
Andela had called for registration into its fellowship program earlier in 2015 from South Africa, Kenya and Ghana with its eyes set on Pan-African expansion, after recording success in Nigeria with over 10,000 applications in its first month of operation.
DisruptAfrica reports that Andela will begin its bootcamp this month followed by the full fellowship program having received over 1,200 applications from Kenya. The company will host 25 successful applicants, who scale through its first screening phase at its three-week bootcamp out of which eight will be chosen for its four-year paid fellowship.
“Andela is excited to build on our work in Nigeria and continue to prove that brilliance is equally distributed around the world even if opportunity is not,” Jeremy Johnson, Andela’s co-founder told Disrupt Africa. “We fully expect to find some of the brightest, most committed and capable young people in Kenya and we look forward to seeing everything they accomplish in the months ahead.”
The Andela fellowship is a four year program that provides on-the-job training for programmers and developers.
Source: DisruptAfrica
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