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A new study from Co-creation Hub (CcHUB) and the African Internet Rights Alliance (AIRA) shows that social media algorithms now function as electoral infrastructure across Africa, deciding which political messages voters see and which they never will — while electoral laws and observation missions remain entirely blind to them.

Every African election now has an actor that no observer mission monitors, no electoral law names, and no voter can see. It does not cast a ballot. It decides…

Nairobi, Kenya — May 2026 – The Creative Economy Practice at Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB) has been named winner of the Creative Ecosystem Enabler Award, presented by the Informal Economy Development Forum (IEDF) 

The award was presented at the CreatiKenya Summit, Expo & Awards 2026, held under the Kalasha International Film and TV Market in partnership with the Kenya Film Commission, at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) in Nairobi.

This recognition reflects years of…

Democracy can be undermined by the very instruments used to strengthen it. Stakeholders came together to address this issue head-on at the Co-creation HUB (CcHUB) fireside session held during the Digital Right and Inclusion Forum (DRIF) 2026, in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire. A critical question that surfaced at the session was not whether technology belongs in Africa’s elections, it is whether Africa is deploying technology wisely to build resilient democracies.

Drawing on one of CcHUB’s…

CcHUB convened a continent-wide conversation on International Women’s Day 2026 to examine how online violence is silencing women—and what Africa must do to reclaim its civic future.

On 8 March 2026, CcHUB hosted a virtual roundtable titled “Silence by Design: Civic Space and Women’s Silenced Voices.” The conversation gathered three remarkable voices: Sherylle Dass, Regional Director of the Legal Resources Centre and a public-interest litigator of 24 years; Blessing Oladunjoye, award-winning…

Caption: CcHUB 30 Changemakers 2026

For 30 days, we asked 30 women from across CcHUB’s pan-African community one question: What would you give the next generation of women coming after you?

Their answers became the “She Gave. Africa Gained.” campaign. 

Then we asked you the question we’d been building toward: Who should be the #31 Changemaker?

Nominations came in from across the continent. Every nomination made the case that women are changing what’s broken in their…

International Women’s Month 2026 | CcHUB Changemakers Series

Photo of Martha Jesuleke

Martha Jesuleke teaches Biology at Obele Community Senior High School in Lagos. The microscopic world she needs her students to understand—cell division, anatomical structures, botanical cross-sections—is invisible without the right tools. So she comes to the Teachers Lounge at CcHUB, logs onto high-speed internet, and pulls up virtual laboratories and 3D biological simulations that make the…

If you are a young Nigerian, you know the drill: finish school, send out CVs into the void, and refresh your email, hoping for a reply that never comes.

Meanwhile, your timeline is full of conversations about the digital economy. You see people making money online—some of it real, some of it just noise—and it’s hard to filter the facts from the hype. You want a clear path from where you are right now, whether that’s sitting at home with no experience or freelancing with inconsistent…

Joy Obuya did not need help being talented.

She had already spotted a market segment many fashion brands ignore: people with non-standard sizes. So she set out to build Nawiri, a fashion brand for everybody and every body. 

She had already done the hard part of starting, which is a step most people agonize over. What she now needed was infrastructure support. 

Through the Fashionomics Africa Accelerator, Joy reworked Nawiri’s pricing using actual cost analysis rather than…

Photo: A session from the Kwara Digital Health Summit 2025

Innovation does not stall because of a lack of talent. It stalls because systems fail to connect talent to structure.

In Q4 2025, CcHUB focused on one strategic priority across Africa: closing the gap between potential and deployment.

Across education, digital health, startup infrastructure, creative industries, and democratic governance, the recurring pattern was fragmentation—disconnected actors, isolated builders, and…

Dateline: Lagos, Nigeria — [Friday, 27 February 2026]

A large share of African EdTech has been built for the most stable learning environments: reliable connectivity, predictable school routines, and families that can pay. But the categories that matter most for inclusion—disability, disrupted schooling, girls’ participation and retention, and usable education data—often have higher implementation costs and slower adoption cycles.

CcHUB, in partnership with the Mastercard Foundation, has…