Creating documentation for the African audience
summary
Surveyed African companies report concrete numbers and tools: Google finds 716,000 developers across the continent, startups list 24,000 HQs, Paga serves 18 million accounts and Paystack has 60,000 merchants. Documentation uses ReadMe or self‑hosted CMS like Craft/WordPress, demos live on GitHub or Replit, feedback runs through Slack/Discord. Teams adopt the open API specification for auto‑generated endpoints but struggle with legacy code and docs written after launch, so SDKs, hackathons and universities fill the gaps.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 3:08Developer community in Afr
- 4:07Africa is building
- 6:13How African companies communicate to their audien
- 7:19Approach to Documentatio
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