A day of first steps in HTML and CSS in Conakry
On July 25, 2026, 25 participants joined our team at Elitech Academy to discover web development, try things out, ask questions and practise together.
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News and stories from the fata archive, in publication order.
Discovering fata through practice in Abomey-Calavi
On July 18, 2026, our team joined the 10.000 Codeurs forum in Benin to introduce fata, run an on-site challenge and celebrate LinkedIn Challenge award recipients.
fata × MIABE Hackathon 2026
Learn.
Practise. Progress.
8,018
modules completed
Web
5,70271.1% of total
Python
1,72221.5% of total
Dart
5947.4% of total
Helping MIABE Hackathon prepare more learners for the next phase
Training participants, recognizing their progress and preparing balanced teams: for MIABE Hackathon 2026, our work with the organizers began well before the projects.
In Nairobi, taking DevFest into everyday practice
With GDG Nairobi, we offered a challenge to keep learning after DevFest. During the challenge, 298 participants practised on fata, followed by a prize gathering in December.
Celebrating fata learners at DevFest Pretoria
In Pretoria, the fata challenge led up to DevFest, where prizes were presented on November 22, 2025, bringing learners into the developer community’s gathering.
Coming together in Accra to celebrate learners’ work
On November 1, 2025, our collaboration with GDG Accra continued with a prize ceremony at Chubo Restaurant. The challenge had brought together 297 participants, including 287 who practised on fata.
Let the women speak: how to accelerate digital learning in Guinea?
We invited a panel of personalities committed to Guinean youth to hear their thoughts on how digital training can be improved.
2nd Web Development Forum, Labé University
We were impressed by the dynamism, vision and collaboration of both the teaching team and their students.
Women in tech: how to train the next generation?
Women represent 50% of the world population: we cannot build the world economy without half of the population!
FATA Pedagogical Approach
One of the reasons we created FATA is the realization that we can create much more effective and engaging training programs in software development by putting into practice the key discoveries of learning sciences.
Retrospective on FATA launch
We launched FATA in Guinea with several events. We want to express our gratitude to all the people we had the privilege to meet and acknowledge their generous support of the FATA initiative.
We're learning to code but not to build apps
Aminata Fofana is a very dynamic young woman whose entusiasm and determination are contagious. She might just be 21 years old, but she’s already been a female and children rights’ activist for seven years.
Christine Camara, talented young coder
« I want to create a programming school for women in Guinea and work in Silicon Valley! »
The power of word of mouth in Guinea
We had to do our own data collection because Guinean software developers are severely under represented in existing studies of training needs.
« Programming means accepting new challenges! »
Ibrahima wants to send an important message: the best possible gain is knowledge, don’t give up and keep learning.
3 tools I used to build FATA.school
In this post I want to focus on telling you about the tools I discovered while building FATA.school and how they made me about twice as productive.
Win a Chromebook Lenovo Duet with FATA
We're organizing a free contest open to all guinean mens and women from May 1st to May 31st. The winner will get a Lenovo Duet Chromebook.
The invisible strength of African economies - women entrepreneurs
Did you know that the world record for female entrepreneurship is held by the African continent? Almost one third of entrepreneurs (27%) in Africa are women, despite the fact that most...
The MARI BRA DEV project in Coyah: a 2023 archive
Looking back at the proposed partnership between FATA and the MARI BRA DEV school in Bintourayah, Guinea.