About
Built for African educators, from the ground up.
Most teaching platforms are built for educators in the United States, priced in dollars, and tuned for a payment stack your learners do not use. We built the one we wished existed instead.
Why we exist
Africa is full of educators with something to teach and no good home to teach from.
Two patterns kept showing up. A career coach in Lagos charging her clients on three different WhatsApp threads. A bootcamp in Accra trying to bolt cohort behaviour onto a YouTube channel. A skills academy in Mauritius juggling Zoom, Mailchimp, Calendly and PayPal just to run one programme.
They all wanted the same thing: a single platform that took their currency, paid into their bank, ran the cohort properly, and looked like the brand they had been building all along.
Learnkasts is that platform. Built locally, priced locally, paid locally.
What we believe.
Four things that shape every decision we make about the product.
African-first is not a feature
Local-currency checkout, payouts to a local bank, cards your learners actually have. These are the floor, not the ceiling.
Calm beats clever
No dark patterns, no countdown timers, no upgrade nags inside the product. The fastest way to lose a teaching business is to make it noisy.
Inclusion is the foundation
Captions, screen reader, sign-language avatar and seven languages on day one. Built with the Mastercard Foundation's accessibility-first standard.
The educator owns the audience
Your domain, your colours, your data. We do not sit between you and your learners. If you leave, you leave with everything.
How we got here.
The short version of a long story.
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2023
First lesson published
Learnkasts ships its first version with one course, one educator and a single Paystack link.
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2024
African payment stack live
Paystack, Flutterwave and Stripe wired up. Naira, Cedi, Rand and Shilling at the checkout. Payouts to local banks every week.
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2024
Accessibility-first build
WCAG 2.1 AA across every learner-facing surface. Audio descriptions, captions, screen reader support. Mastercard Foundation grant secured.
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2025
Enterprise tier launches
White-label portal, SSO, dedicated success managers. Say's Academy and NYSC SAED go live on dedicated tenants.
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2025
AI Course Builder + 7 languages
AI course generation, AI study assistant, Nigerian Sign Language avatar, and translated lessons in Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, French, Spanish and Pidgin.
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2026
New pricing, learner apps live
Unified 5% + ₦100 per-sale platform fee across every paid plan. Branded learner + educator apps on iOS and Android for Pro and Enterprise.
Where we are today.
1,200+
educators and education businesses on Learnkasts
7
languages supported across every lesson
WCAG AA
accessibility standard across the whole platform
5+
African countries where payouts land in local banks
Meet the people behind Learnkasts.
Engineers, designers, educators and operators based across Lagos, Accra, Nairobi and remote. The whole team.
Build with us.
Open your school today, talk to us about Enterprise, or apply to join the team. Whichever fits.