Cardano is already making progress in Africa. However, important questions remain:
- How many Cardano developers are active in Africa compared to other continents?
- How many technical projects integrating Cardano are being developed locally?
The truth is simple: there are developers and initiatives, but not enough, especially when compared to other regions. On the continent itself, most Cardano developers are Anglophone, while Francophone participation remains limited.
Growing the talent pipeline
Since February 2025, Coxygen Global has launched a Haskell and Plutus learning program across several African countries, including DR Congo, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Côte d’Ivoire, South Africa, Nigeria, and others.
In DR Congo, I personally coordinate the program with a partnering institution. Today:
more than 15 students have already gained solid foundations in Haskell and Plutus, despite coming from backgrounds where they had never heard of Cardano before.
This marks a positive shift in creating a new generation of Francophone blockchain developers on Cardano.
Breaking the language barriers
One of the major challenges remains language: most technical material in the Cardano ecosystem is available primarily in English, making it difficult for Francophone learners to fully engage.
To address this, on 22 November 2025, Coxygen Global officially launched a weekly French-language podcast program, gathering Haskell/Plutus students from countries such as:
- DR Congo
- Burkina Faso
- Côte d’Ivoire
During the first session, we discussed:
- What Cardano is
- Cardano’s architecture
- Transitioning from Web2 to Web3
- The practical realities behind smart contracts
The goal is clear:
provide accessible technical content in French,
encourage more Francophones to join the ecosystem,
inspire future developers across the Francophone Cardano community worldwide.
A needed effort, yet often underestimated
Initiatives like these are sometimes overlooked, yet they play a key role in:
- Training local talent,
- Supporting real Cardano-based solutions and dApps,
- Allowing Francophone Africa to contribute fully to blockchain innovation.
A sincere thank you to Bernard Sibanda, Cardano Ambassador in South Africa and Founder of Coxygen Global, for the vision and support enabling this initiative.
What we are building today may seem modest,
but it represents the early foundation of something meaningful for the future of Cardano in Francophone Africa.