Why We Exist

Every year, 3 million students graduate from Africa's over 2,389 universities, but half of them do not find work.

VarsityMentor is changing this.

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What We Do

We connect college students in Africa with carefully vetted African professionals and allies for mentoring, skills development and career pathway guidance.

Mentoring

We carefully match college students in Africa with verified well-educated African professionals and their allies for long-term mentoring that lasts the entire duration of a student’s college journey and often beyond. Through strategic mentoring, we guide our students to learn from the experiences of those before them as a way to empower their future.

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Training

We run monthly and quarterly workshops and hands-on training programs to equip our students with a self-help mindset and demand-driven skills that lead to world-class success. Our training focuses on both technical and soft skills necessary to thrive in the 21st century workplace.

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Pathways to a Career

We partner with industry-leading companies within and outside Africa to develop and match students to internship programs and work opportunities. Through our Pathway to a Career program, we offer insights and support to empower the students to develop methods and habits that lead to professional and leadership growth.

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Community Innovation

We sponsor our students to work on collaborative projects for social impact and innovation. Through our Community Innovation program, we support them to design and implement solutions to problems in their local communities, which is geared to equip them to become change makers, expand economic opportunities, and contribute toward a more resilient future for Africa and the world.

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How We Make A Difference

Watch our impact video to see how we inspire, challenge and support students in Africa to build their best futures and aim for world-class success

How you can Help

Are you too looking for an opportunity to make a difference? You can share your career experiences to inspire and help another person succeed in life. Your experience and advice could be the only career guide a university student in Africa might have at this moment.

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Event Updates and Suggested Readings

Africa 101

As an African, the most basic aspect of your education must be “Africa 101." You must ensure that it empowers you to understand how a world system that has fed you, the African eagle, with chicken feed works, and then change it for a better world for all. Without Africa 101, no Harvard, Oxford or MIT-level education can save you from the “shackles of the mind holding us back as a people. Learn more

Community Innovation

Under the Community Innovation program, we sponsor our students to select social innovation projects that seek to make life better for their communities and for the world. Students work in teams on the projects throughout their university journeys. Do you want to suggest projects? Learn more

Tech Career Camp 2025

Register for our 2025 Career Exposure Summit coming up in April 2025 at Google Android Development Center, Nairobi. The event will bring together students, university partners, the business sector, and other stakeholders to discuss the future of work for university students in Africa and expose them to opportunities in the tech industry. Do you want to find out what a rewarding career looks like or start one? Learn more

What our Scholars and Partner Universities Say

The experience I had at the VarsityMentor conference was life and mindset changing. I saw things from different perspectives and how to bring about a change in my community through technology. My resolutions were to look for problems to solve in the pursuit of my career goal in Artificial Intelligence..

- STUDENT, ECE, UNN

A heartfelt shoutout to the brilliant minds behind this event and the insightful speakers who shared their knowledge, making it a truly enriching experience. Being part of this dynamic community, exchanging ideas, and exploring the limitless possibilities that technology offers was a privilege.

University-of-Ibadan

- ENGINEERING STUDENT, UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN

An amazing experience, a rare opportunity. Thank you VarsityMentor for the opportunity to be part of this. My entire perspective about the next step has gained a whole upgrade and I'm ready to take steps towards achieving greater goals this year.

Kwame-Tech Ghana

- STUDENT, KWAME TECH, GHANA

As a department, we can say that the conference was indeed a great experience and exposure for our students. Many who did not have the privilege of attending physically are still itching for when such opportunity will be created for them to take advantage of it.

Head of Dept, EE, UNN

- HOD, ECE, UNN

Upcoming Events

30 November 2024

VarsityMentor Moonlight Talk

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Venue: Google Meet | Topic: Learning through Biographical Analysis of Virtual Mentors

31 March 2025

Africa Tech Career Summit

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Venue: Google Product Development Centre, Nairobi, Kenya | Theme: AI, Android & Languages: Building a Tech Career in the Age of AI

Do you know that why 2040, Africa will be home to the world's largest workforce?

Join with us to equip students in Africa for this future. Through our programs, we challenge and support our students to rediscover themselves, and equip and guide them to grasp employment and entrepreneurship opportunities for world-class success. We strongly promote the UN Sustainable Development Goals, especially SDGs 4 and 8, and the Africa Agenda 2063, especially Goals, 2, 4 and 6

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