Accra will host one of the African continent's most significant conversations on digital learning this June when over 1,500 educators, policymakers, and technology leaders converge for eLearning Africa 2026. Happening June 3–5 at the invitation of Ghana's Ministry of Education under Honourable Minister Haruna Iddrisu's patronage, the 19th edition of this summit brings together delegates from more than 80 countries and 25 ministerial delegations — a gathering whose scale underscores how urgently the continent is reckoning with the future of teaching and learning.
What makes this year's summit distinctive is not just its size but the constellation of speakers who will shape the conversation. Over 280 expert speakers have been invited to facilitate sessions across the three days, among them a carefully curated group of 20 visionary thought leaders whose work is already redefining how Africans learn. These voices span government, technology, academia, and grassroots practice — each bringing hard-won insights from attempting to scale digital education across landscapes marked by infrastructure constraints, policy gaps, and extraordinary innovation.
The ministerial presence alone signals political will. Sierra Leone's Deputy Minister of Technical and Higher Education, Hon. Sarjoh Aziz-Kamara, brings two decades of UN and public-sector experience alongside his championing of women's enrollment in STEAM disciplines. Ghana's legislator Hon. Mohammed Adams Sukparu, who sits on the Judiciary and Public Accounts committees and serves as Vice President of the African Parliamentarians' Network on Development Evaluation, represents the data-driven governance imperative now reshaping policy across West Africa.
But the summit's real power lies in its marriage of policy and practice. Dr. Ronda Železný-Green, CEO of datocracy and a digital changemaker with over 20 years of cross-continental experience, will speak to "Epistemic Justice" — ensuring marginalized populations become architects of their own digital futures. Her initiative, the Responsible Data Management course developed for data.org, has already trained over 3.1 million civil servants in ethical data governance across Nigeria and India. Olusola Amusan, a software engineer who co-founded Vesti, an AI-powered app serving over 150,000 users navigating financial and legal migration pathways, brings the startup perspective that's reshaping African EdTech.
The academic infrastructure builders are equally vital. Assoc. Prof. Joshua Valeta, Malawi's inaugural Director of Open, Distance, and e-Learning, is leading a nationwide push to deploy tablet-based learning across all public schools by 2029. Prof. Eric Appau Asante at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology has authored frameworks for blended learning in resource-limited environments. Prof. Karen Ferreira-Meyers, based at the University of Eswatini's Institute of Distance Education, has trained thousands of educators in online pedagogy over two decades.
And there are practitioners working at the literal last mile. Lovetta Bangura, a civil engineer and EdTech systems practitioner from Sierra Leone, has managed digital deployments across six districts in infrastructure-constrained settings through EasySTEM, working alongside UNICEF and the Peace Corps.
What emerges from this speaker roster is a coherent vision: digital learning in Africa is not a matter of importing solutions, but of building them locally, equitably, and with clear eyes toward the barriers that exist. When Accra convenes in June, it will be to map not an aspirational future, but a present that is already unfolding — one speaker, one district, one policy reform at a time.