I’m excited to announce that African Leadership International (ALI) has signed an agreement to acquire Silicon Valley based Holberton Inc. – a Silicon Valley-founded, project-based, college alternative educating the next generation of software engineers. Once complete, this acquisition will give ALI ownership of the advanced technology program that will enable us to provide global organizations access to significant untapped pools of talent that can bridge the growing global shortage of technology talent. It will also change the lives of millions of young Africans by equipping them with the software engineering skills essential for the future digital workplace. The acquisition is expected to be completed in the third quarter. As part of the transaction, the Holberton School network will be separated as an independent organization.

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Sources like the World Economic Forum estimate that, unless something changes, the world will experience a shortage of up to 97 million people in technology-related roles over the next decade.

Well today, something has changed: African Leadership International (ALI) has signed an agreement to acquire Silicon Valley’s Holberton Inc, thereby providing us (ALI) with the suite of tools and technologies to develop millions of young software engineers that can work remotely for global companies through our talent placement arm, The ROOM.

Holberton Inc offers a truly revolutionary software engineering training program that was launched in 2016 in San Francisco by Julien Barbier and his team. Their vision extended beyond creating just another 3-month coding bootcamp. They wanted to create a deeper program where students would code for 70-100 hours/week for up to 24 months. More like a Computer Science degree, the training program would cover