Mara offers free blockchain education to young Africans

Mara, a pan-African digital finance ecosystem, recently gathered over 4,000 digital finance and blockchain enthusiasts across Northern Nigeria to educate them at its first ever community hangout in the region.

According to the company, this educational hangout is in line with the company’s commitment to train one million people and impact one billion lives.

Speaking about the sessions, a Mara representative described the Web3 enthusiasts as “forward thinkers who acquired future-proof knowledge to thrive and gain financial empowerment in the future.” According to him, by bridging the knowledge gap, the digital financial ecosystem is helping more people enter the maraverse and benefit from the financial freedom that Web3 promises.

During the hangout session, various Mara ambassadors and speakers from Kano, Gombe, Adamawa and other states in the northern region took turns to help educate those in attendance. The sessions covered the importance of digital finance in growing Africa’s economy and improving the lifestyles of individuals, the financial opportunities that blockchain would bring, Mara’s digital finance offering and opportunities that abound for members of the Mara Champion Network.

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However, participants at the hangout shared their experience of the educational sessions, highlighting various new knowledge they acquired and the excitement of using this knowledge to improve their lives, their communities and the continent economically.

The Mara education train has also stopped in many other places, including university campuses across Africa, where it has focused on equipping a pan-African tribe of thinkers and builders who participate in the transformation of their economic future and their communities.

Earlier in the beginning of the third quarter of the year, Mara held blockchain masterclasses in Lagos and Nairobi where over 5,000 Web2 developers in attendance were educated on how to build a solid foundation as they transition to Web3. They were trained on decentralized exchanges, smart contracts and dApps.

Similarly, the company has launched Mara Academy, a new free online education platform that will drive blockchain and digital finance capacity building in Africa.