ACCRA, Ghana– The continental stage is set for a historical event as the 19th edition of eLearning Africa 2026 prepares to start from June 3– 5, 2026, in Accra.
Co-hosted by Ghana’s Ministry of Education under the patronage of the Honourable Minister of Education, Haruna Iddrisu, this year’s summit is set to be one of the biggest discussions on digital learning, innovation, and educational innovation on the continent.
The three-day top-level assembly is expected to bring in over 1,500 delegates from more than 80 nations, uniting 25 ministerial delegations and over 280 expert speakers.
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As stakeholders come together to map the future of African human capital, Edugist highlights 20 influential speakers and believed leaders whose sessions will redefine discovering ecosystems across the continent.
1. Hon. Sarjoh Aziz-Kamara (Sierra Leone)
Serving as the Deputy Minister of Technical and Higher Education for Sierra Leone, Aziz-Kamara brings more than twenty years of public sector and United Nations operational experience to the top.
He has been a pivotal force in driving policy reforms for college and Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET).
A strong advocate for gender inclusivity, he actively champions efforts that increase the registration of females and women in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Farming, and Mathematics) disciplines.
2. Hon. Mohammed Adams Sukparu (Ghana)
A dynamic legislator and Member of Parliament for the Sissala West constituency, Hon. Sukparu operates at the intersection of legislative oversight, task management, and neighborhood facilities improvement.
Beyond his parliamentary tasks on the Judiciary and Public Accounts committees, he works as the Vice President of the African Parliamentarians’ Network on Development Evaluation (APNODE).
He uses his platform to promote data-driven governance, academic gain access to, and youth empowerment throughout West Africa.
3. Dr Ronda Železný-Green
A world-renowned digital changemaker and the CEO of datocracy, Dr. Železný-Green, possesses over twenty years of experience covering five continents.
Distinguished for her dedication to “Epistemic Justice,” her work empowers marginalised populations to become main architects of their digital futures.
Especially, she spearheaded the advancement of data.org’s Accountable Data Management course, an initiative embraced by the federal governments of Nigeria and India to upskill over 3.1 million civil servants in ethical information governance.
4. Olusola Amusan (Nigeria/USA)
A contemporary software engineer and polymath, Amusan is the Co-Founder and CEO of Vesti, an AI-powered super-app simplifying monetary and legal migration paths for over 150,000 users worldwide.
Having previously led large-scale technology and workforce projects for giants like Microsoft, AWS, and the World Bank, Amusan’s educational ventures include founding Curators University and Blackshore, Africa’s very first AI-native hardware business.
5. Assoc. Prof. Joshua Valeta (Malawi)
As the inaugural Director of Open, Distance, and e-Learning (ODeL) within Malawi’s Ministry of Education, Dr Valeta is driving an ambitious, nationwide structural overhaul.
He currently leads a transformative effort to scale tablet-based knowing across all public schools in Malawi by 2029.
A member of the Global Referral Group for Technology for Education (GPE), his work concentrates on building resilient facilities to meet United Nations Sustainable Advancement Goal 4 (Quality Education).
6. Prof. Eric Appau Asante (Ghana)
Prof. Asante is an Associate Teacher of Educational Innovations and the Establishing Director of the E-Learning Centre at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Innovation (KNUST).
A certified Quality Matters Planner and reviewer, he is the author of Maximising E-Learning in a Constrained Ecosystem.
His work concentrates on establishing robust quality-assurance and blended-learning structures tailored to resource-limited scholastic environments.
7. Prof. Karen Ferreira-Meyers (Eswatini)
Based at the University of Eswatini’s Institute of Distance Education (IDE), Teacher Ferreira-Meyers has actually spent over two decades pioneering online pedagogy in Southern Africa.
An early adopter of the Moodle learning management platform, she has actually trained countless teachers throughout the continent.
Her current work concentrates on operationalising AI integration workshops within the class through the university’s Expert system Academy.
8. Lovetta Bangura (Sierra Leone)
A civil engineer, YALI alumna, and EdTech systems specialist, Bangura addresses how digital knowing platforms behave in infrastructure-constrained environments.
Through her management at EasySTEM and collaborations with UNICEF and the Peace Corps, she has actually successfully managed last-mile digital deployments across six districts in Sierra Leone, creating offline-compatible knowing tools and AI-enabled gender-based violence prevention resources.
9. Djérambété Sylvain (Sahel Area)
An international consultant operating at the crossway of education, technological development, and ecological policy, Sylvain specialises in developing digital systems adjusted to the unstable socio-economic realities of the Sahel.
His work concentrates on crafting inclusive, data-driven governance tools that empower schools, teachers, and youths to remain resistant amid local climate shifts and structural barriers.
10. Latirr Carr (The Gambia)
Job advancement consultant and creator of the Xalimba Academy for the Arts and Sciences in The Gambia, Carr uses his school as a live research centre for fundamental literacy services.
Working Together with Leap Learning, his team develops customized, technology-enabled knowing approaches designed for sub-regional scale.
11. Eric Balangtaa (UNICEF Ghana)
With 15 years of experience in inclusive innovations, Balangtaa previously collaborated the UNESCO-Korean “ICT Changing Education in Africa” initiative, which actively formed Ghana’s nationwide ICT in Education policy framework. He currently heads UNICEF Ghana’s Digital Education Portfolio.
12. Abeer Alyazji (Belgium/Palestine)
An expert in Skills and Decent Employment at Enabel, Alyazji coordinates the Digital Abilities Working Group for the global Digital for Advancement (D4D) Hub.
She leverages over 15 years of experience with the UNDP and different higher education organizations to build scalable, AI-enabled employment options for displaced populations.
13. Dr Leslie Casely-Hayford (Ghana)
A social development consultant with 30 years of research and policy application experience under her belt, Dr Casely-Hayford serves as a trusted advisor to Ghana’s Parliament on education sector analysis.
As Director at Associates for Modification, she leads significant multi-country research study jobs concentrated on fair education financing and scaling pedagogical developments in fragile or crisis-affected settings.
14. André Chateau Akue Asseko (France/Gabon)
A Partner Professor at IMT Nord Europe, Dr Asseko is a certified e-learning designer who mixes thermal engineering and products processing sciences with active digital pedagogy.
He specialises in developing hybrid engineering coursework that incorporates collective AI tools, interactive video media, and peer-learning platforms like Perusall.
15. Ferdinand Eruka (Nigeria)
Acting As the Knowing Innovation and Technology Manager at LEAP Africa, Eruka brings over a decade of business training, gamification, and digital knowing style to the table.
His expertise centres on Learning Management System (LMS) governance, monetisation, and finding out analytics platforms optimised for African youth demographics.
16. Emmanuel Choge (Kenya)
A technical trade education professional, Choge leads regional education-to-employment efforts in East Africa.
His work focuses on greening TVET programs, implementing dual training systems, and developing market-aligned curricula that match technical abilities with real-world public and private sector needs.
17. Iryna Atamanenko (Europe/Africa)
A Regional Operations Professional at Harrison Assessments International, Atamanenko makes use of over 10 years of cross-cultural coaching experience to release data-driven psychometric analytics.
Her work concentrates on skill acquisition, full-cycle HR services, and the application of Paradox Technology to develop organisational durability and avoid work environment burnout.
18. Precious Mia Akidi (Uganda)
A telecom engineer at the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC), Akidi supports facilities compliance, rural connection growth, and e-waste management systems.
She is the innovator behind “The Audio Sonification Assistive System for the Blind” and actively campaigns for ladies’s enrollment in engineering disciplines through MEMPROW.
19. Dr Rob Branch (U.S.A.)
A Professor of Learning, Style, and Technology at the University of Georgia, Dr Branch is an imposing scholastic figure who has actually supervised over 130 graduate students.
He is the author of Instructional Design: The ADDIE Approach and co-editor of the Educational Media and Innovation Yearbook. His research emphasises using diagrams to break down complex, conceptual relationships in STEM classrooms.
20. Eugenia Agyeiwaa Boadi (Ghana)
A petroleum engineer turned leadership coach, Boadi is the CEO of Geagle Consult and Training Institute (GCTI).
She is the creator of KidsAtHome Educational Centre and the STEMSheCan effort, which concentrates on breaking gender stereotypes and motivating young girls to pursue high-impact technical careers.
As these 20 speakers show, the upcoming eLearning Africa 2026 top is not merely about importing hardware; it is about localising digital sovereignty, breaking pedagogical boundaries, and engineering localised software services efficient in preparing Africa’s thriving youth population for the jobs of the next century.
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