DeFi Africa is an African nonprofit community focused on decentralized finance and Web3 education, adoption, and development across the continent. DeFi Africa's Twitter Score is 5.7 out of 1000 as of August 2026, ranking #144,340 among 483,914 tracked accounts.
DeFi Africa was founded by Sahabia Yakubu, who serves as its Founder and Managing Director. The organization works to equip individuals and businesses with the knowledge and tools to participate in decentralized finance, running hands-on programs at universities and through structured online curricula. DeFi Africa is backed by the Arbitrum grant program and is affiliated with SEEDGov.
DeFi Africa organized the Ghana Crypto and DeFi Summit 2022, bringing together speakers from the Uniswap Foundation, BanklessDAO, MetisDAO, and AirDAO. On the education side, the organization ran Web3 BUIDL Workshops at multiple Ghanaian universities, covering Solidity programming and smart-contract deployment on Arbitrum Sepolia. It also initiated the Arbitrum HackerBoost Program, which launched four Web3 courses alongside a 12-week bootcamp that reached 178 participants.
DeFi Africa has published 1,515 posts on the platform and has been mentioned by 13 accounts, with 91 total mentions.
Who follows DeFi Africa on X?
The accounts that follow DeFi Africa include 20 founders, 9 angel investors, 8 influencers and 1 VCs, among them DeFi Dad defidad.eth, Matthew Graham, Rune, Francesco Andreoli, Devin Walsh and Abdel.