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Practical guides, long-form perspectives, and the research behind our approach — from the people running it day to day.
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Essays and observations from inside Tunga: on hiring, distributed work, African tech talent, and how companies are navigating growth. Written by the people running it day to day.
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Structured guides to the questions companies ask us most: how to hire fast, what a talent partner actually does, how to scale without overhead, and why Africa is an increasingly strong option for European teams.
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Deeper research into the trends we track: the African developer market, salary benchmarks, AI readiness, and what international hiring actually looks like when done well.
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Why you haven't started your business yet
In 2023 we surveyed the Tunga developer pool about what the Tunga Academy should contribute to achieving. We asked African software developers what their ambitions were, and where they see themselves in 5 years.
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Where the weight in software work is moving
Engineering teams that have been using AI coding tools in production for a year or more tend to show the same pattern. Output volume is clearly up. Bugs per developer are up too. Review time has gone through the roof. Something in the economics of the work has flipped, and the standard productivi
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There is a manual for hiring across cultures. It's only 3 questions long.
Hiring across cultures comes with questions you didn't quite see coming. What's expected of you. What's expected of them. What you can joke about and what you can't. Whose job it is to flag a problem, and when. Somewhere between signing the contract and the first call, you realise: nobody handed
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