Coding a must-have skill for graduates and academics Efforts to establish and grow a pool of skilled coders across Africa have been picking up speed and range from informal coding boot camps to the embedding of coding in formal higher education qualifications. In Southern Africa, coding has been embedded in e-commerce, computer science, statistics, IT and electronic engineering qualifications at university level. In addition to dozens of universities including coding in a range of qualifications in Nigeria, some institutions in West and East Africa are also inspiring students to refine their skills through vibrant coding communities and innovative events such as hackathons and coding weeks.