Building Africa’s digital future from the inside.
I am Regan Odhiambo Ayiecho, born and raised in Kisumu, Kenya. I am a Mastercard Foundation Scholar pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering at the African Leadership University in Kigali, Rwanda.
My journey into technology was not a straight line. I taught Mathematics at St. Joseph Ng’ula Primary School, mentored hundreds of students through scholarship applications at Eaal Foundation, and then built a pan-African platform from zero budget. Every step taught me something different about people, problems and persistence.
Today I’m the founder of AfriVid Studio, an AI video platform giving African creators and businesses native-language video tools in Swahili, Yoruba, Hausa, Arabic, French, and Portuguese — and Jua Institute, an AI learning platform helping university students recover skills lost to AI shortcuts, and helping form four leavers build real, job-ready skills during their gap year. I’m also co-founder and Tech Lead of Young Africans Network, a platform I built from zero budget, now serving members across 25 African countries.
I believe Africa should own its digital infrastructure — its tools, its languages, its learning systems. My goal is to build technology that keeps African skill, voice, and value on the continent.