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
Emzini weCode builds Africa's next generation of problem solvers through rigorous computational training and deep mentorship, planting a discipline of hard work that turns talent into careers, companies, and communities.
Starting with the ones nobody else will 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. 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.
Innocent Chikwanda
Rhodes Scholar, University of Oxford
United Kingdom
Came through CS7 in 2021 and returned to teach it four times. Went to Ashesi University as a Mastercard Foundation Scholar and co-founded Chariot Africa, which works on digital access in rural communities. Named a 2026 Rhodes Scholar, one of 108 worldwide and one of three from Zimbabwe. Reading an MSc in Advanced Computer Science and an MBA at Oxford, working on how African languages are represented in AI.
Kudzaishe Bhuza
Software Engineer
Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
CS7 Class of 2021, came back as a teaching assistant several times, and spent eight months on attachment building with us in 2024. Won first place at the Meta Llama 3.1 Impact Hackathon for Sub-Saharan Africa in Kigali, an event funded by Meta and the Gates Foundation.
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 paid for the founder's education.
Davis Projects for Peace
A project grant for student-led work.
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.
