01 · Learn
Short skill badges
Focused courses for practical workplace communication skills: writing, visibility, AI use, and campaign execution.
Train · Certify · Place
An institute for African communicators who want to be taken seriously at work.
We train people who can run a campaign in three languages, brief a donor in three time zones, and write a press release that actually lands. Practitioners, not theorists. Built for how communications work happens across this continent, in NGOs, agencies, tech startups, governments and faith organisations. From Lagos to Freetown, Nairobi to Banjul.
By the numbers
Training and placing African comms talent across the continent.
12wks
to hire-ready, end-to-end
21days
Visibility Lab sprint
500+
organisations served by founder agencies
25
African countries reached
The gap is not between Africa and the world. It is between training and the actual work.
Most communications training still teaches the press release as the centrepiece. Meanwhile, an NGO needs someone who can run an AI-assisted donor report by Friday, a tech founder needs a content lead who understands B2B SaaS, and a foundation needs crisis comms support after a Twitter pile-on. The talent is there. The pathway between trained people and the organisations hiring them is broken. That is what we are rebuilding.
Three pathways
Built for learners, professionals, and employers.
02 · Certify
Workplace Readiness Track
A structured track that prepares early-career communicators for real teams, managers, timelines, clients, and standards.
03 · Place
Zyra Connect
A vetted talent pool that helps employers find communicators who have been trained for the work.
Founder agency
Born from the work, not a whiteboard.
Zyra is the brainchild of two African agencies that needed the same thing: communicators who were not only trained, but ready. Triad Digital Solutions and Hexa Media have worked with organisations across media, advocacy, social impact, and business. Zyra turns that field experience into a train-certify-place loop.
Featured programmes
Choose the track that matches the career move.
Core track
Workplace Readiness Track
For early-career professionals who need workplace judgment, communication standards, and role readiness.
Visibility sprint
Professional Visibility Lab
A 21-day sprint for professionals who need a clearer public profile, portfolio, and positioning.
For employers
Zyra Connect
A practical hiring bridge for organisations looking for trained African communications talent.
Hiring partner grid
For organisations that need people who can actually do the work.
Zyra supports teams hiring across social impact, media, technology, government communications, and agency work.
NGOs
Advocacy and donor communications
People who can write updates, campaigns, reports, and public-facing messaging with context.
Startups
Growth and content support
Talent that understands fast-moving teams, content systems, and the discipline of clear execution.
Agencies
Reliable junior and mid-level support
Communicators who can move from brief to delivery without needing to be taught the basics again.
What people say
The work is about competence, confidence, and placement.
“Zyra feels like the missing bridge between learning communications and being trusted with actual work.”
Amina O.
Communications associate
“The standard is practical. It shows you what employers expect before you enter the room.”
David K.
Program officer
“We need talent that can think, write, present, and follow through. Zyra is solving the right problem.”
Hiring partner
Social impact organisation