Bulawayo, Zimbabwe · Est. 2019
Rigorous computer science, year long mentorship, and the infrastructure to run both, built in Bulawayo, open to students wherever they are.
Our mission
Adopted at founding. Unchanged since.
To make rigorous computer science education, and the mentorship that turns it into a career, reachable by anyone prepared to work for it, starting with the ones nobody else was going to reach.
No one is turned away for inability to pay. Apply first. We work out the money afterwards.
What we do
Courses and year long school clubs. Rigorous, mentored, and priced on what you can pay.
Courses and clubs 02We bring the curriculum, the mentors and the culture. Your institution brings the room.
Host a club 03Poseidon, verifiable credentials, and Studio work delivered for real clients.
What we build 04You do not graduate from Emzini weCode. Alumni, Fellows and mentors stay in the house.
The networkOur culture
Our strongest asset is not the syllabus. It is the culture students step into. One where effort is expected, difficulty is normal, and nobody is written off for starting behind.
Belong
Eric Khumalo
Founder and Chief Executive · Emzini weCode
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
Grew up in Gwabalanda and sat his A-Levels at Mpopoma High, the same school the clubs now run in. Read Data Science at UC Berkeley as a Mastercard Foundation Scholar, interned at Twitter across three summers, and has worked as a data scientist and privacy engineer since. Teaches CS7 himself and leads the Professional Training Track.
Proud Mpala
Chief Strategy Officer · Emzini weCode
United States
Maranatha Adventist High School, then an MS in Computer Science at Stanford. A pioneer CS7 alumnus who came back. Leads strategic direction, curriculum design and long term growth planning.
Nandipa Siluma
Operations Lead · Emzini weCode
United States
Maranatha Adventist High School, then Computer Science at Northwestern University. A pioneer CS7 alumna. Runs organisational logistics, the partner school relationships and hub operations.
Support and partnership
Big Ideas at UC Berkeley
The grant that took Emzini weCode from a room to a programme.
Mastercard Foundation
The scholarship that made the founder's own education possible.
Davis Projects for Peace
A grant for a student-led project with a stated purpose.
NUST American Space
The room where the classes ran after the public library.
Education Matters
A long-running collaboration on getting students to university.
Stay in touch
Cohort dates when applications open, and the occasional piece of writing. Nothing weekly, and nothing you did not ask for.
Bring the work ethic. We will sort out the rest, including the fee.
