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Rapelang Rabana, co-CEO of Imagine Worldwide, is a technology entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience building and leading digital businesses in Africa. She is the founder and chair of Rekindle Learning, a company providing adaptive learning solutions for business and education. She previously served as Chief Digital Officer at BCX, one of South Africa’s largest IT companies. Rapelang is a leading African technology entrepreneur and has been featured on the cover of Forbes Africa and selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
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August 24, 2026
TED
How to fix Africa's learning crisis
By 2030, nearly half the world's young people will be African. Yet for decades, the continent's learning crisis was treated with systems unfit for reality on the ground. Social entrepreneur Rapelang Rabana shows how homegrown leadership and technology designed for African classrooms can deliver foundational skills to millions of children — and shape a new future of education across the continent. (This ambitious idea is part of The Audacious Project, TED's initiative to inspire and fund global change.)




