FayEDU exists because knowledge is everywhere in Africa. What’s been missing is the infrastructure to package it, share it, and sustain it.
“Why do so many knowledgeable educators across Africa struggle to share what they know online?”
FayEDU was born from a simple but urgent question. Faith Mundia — a Learning Engineer and Instructional Designer based in Nairobi — had spent years working with educators across Kenya and East Africa. The pattern was consistent: teachers, trainers, NGO facilitators, university lecturers, and vocational instructors all had deep subject-matter knowledge, but they lacked the tools, frameworks, and platforms to package and deliver it at scale. The platforms that existed were designed for a different context — Western institutions with larger teams, bigger budgets, and more reliable connectivity.
The question wasn’t whether Africa had knowledge worth sharing. It clearly did. The question was whether we could build the infrastructure to make that sharing sustainable, professional, and rewarding for the educators doing the work. FayEDU is that infrastructure.
Before a single line of platform code was written, Faith spent eight months conducting structured field research with educators across Kenya. The goal was to understand — not assume — what African educators actually needed from a course creation platform. Interviews, observation sessions, and prototype testing across five sectors surfaced consistent, actionable findings that became the design principles of FayEDU.
Existing platforms were too complex for non-technical educators — requiring design skills, video editing expertise, and technical setup that created immediate drop-off.
Educators needed flexible, self-paced creation tools that fit around teaching schedules — not platforms that demanded sustained blocks of uninterrupted time.
African educators primarily work on mobile devices. Platforms designed desktop-first created friction that made course creation feel inaccessible.
No pedagogical framework in common use matched African educator workflows — the frameworks that existed were designed for institutional Western contexts, not individual practitioners.
The research findings led directly to the development of the Fay Institute Learning Framework (FILF) — a pedagogical model designed specifically for African educators building online courses. Rather than asking educators to adopt an unfamiliar methodology wholesale, FILF synthesises the most practical elements of three established instructional design frameworks into a workflow that maps to how African educators already think and plan their teaching.
Launched in 2026 and backed by Microsoft for Startups, AWS, and the NVIDIA Inception Programme, FayEDU is a three-part platform built to take an educator from idea to income — without needing a production team, a design background, or an enterprise budget.
An AI-assisted course builder that guides educators through structuring content, adding video, quizzes, and assessments — no design experience required. Built around the Fay Institute Framework.
Explore Course Studio →A built-in platform where educators publish, price, and sell their courses directly to a growing audience of learners, with real-time revenue analytics and Paystack-powered payments.
Browse Marketplace →A clean, distraction-free learning environment where students enrol, track progress, earn certificates, and engage with course communities — optimised for all devices and connection speeds.
Explore Learn LMS →FayEDU is supported by world-class technology partners who share our belief in African innovation.
Faith Mundia is a Learning Engineer, Instructional Designer, and lifelong advocate for quality education in Africa. She has worked at the intersection of pedagogy and technology for years — designing learning systems for schools, organisations, and development programmes across East Africa.
Fay Institute was established with a clear purpose: to build learning systems that are research-grounded, educator-centred, and designed for the realities of African classrooms, organisations, and communities. FayEDU is the public-facing platform that brings that mission to scale.
Before building FayEDU, Faith spent eight months conducting structured field research with educators across Kenya — ensuring the platform was built on evidence, not assumptions. Every major design decision in FayEDU traces back to something a real educator said, struggled with, or needed in that research.
We are headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, and we build for Africa first.