Women Who Go Africa

WWG is a global initiative focused on all gender minorities who are interested in learning or improving their skills in #Golang

[Gophercon Africa @gophers_africa]

🎈 17 years of Go.

Austin Clements wrote a great anniversary post for the Go team on what shipped this year and what is coming next.

Worth a read if you build with @golang .

https://t.co/HScmJ4y6JP

#Golang

[Women Who Go Africa @WWGAfrica]

🚀🚀🚀

[Gophercon Africa @gophers_africa]

A huge thank you to @Google for sponsoring #GopherConAfrica2026

Your support helped bring together Go devs from across the continent to learn, connect, and build. None of this happens without partners who believe in growing the African dev ecosystem.

Thank you, @Google!

#Go

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[Women Who Go Africa @WWGAfrica]

thank you!

[Gophercon Africa @gophers_africa]

🙏 THANK YOU!

#GopherConAfrica2026 is a wrap.

To our sponsors and partners: @Google, @moniepoint, @Tailscale, @ardanlabs, @jetbrains, @GolangBridge and, @monoscope_tech, thank you for making it possible. To every attendee, speaker, and volunteer, thank you for showing up

[Gophercon Africa @gophers_africa]

⚡ 350 TPS to 1,000,000 TPS.

@iamkaroko talk at #GopherConAfrica2026 on pushing a Go transaction pipeline to a million per second.

Worker pools, worker-local maps to kill lock contention, and batch writes to the database.

Measure first. Optimize second.

#Golang #Performance

[Gophercon Africa @gophers_africa]

🔒 Before you replace a lock, profile it and find where the contention really is.

In @alextrending benchmark, 98.78% of the delay showed up at sync.(*Mutex).Unlock, because waiters add the delay and Unlock gets the stack.

From Why Go Hides Its Spinlocks at #GopherConAfrica2026.

[Gophercon Africa @gophers_africa]

🤖 A rule the agent has to remember is a suggestion. A rule with a test is something it can check on its own.

@_bigzoo at #GopherConAfrica2026 on invariants as the new interface.

Balanced, atomic, exact, append-only, monotonic IDs. Five ledger rules, five tests.

#Golang

[Gophercon Africa @gophers_africa]

🎤 Opening keynote: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants

@spankie_dee on the state of Go in Africa and the people who got us here.

Every local community started with 1 or 2 people. Consistency beat readiness, every time.

#GopherConAfrica2026 #Golang

[Women Who Go Africa @WWGAfrica]

Building with Go across Africa takes more than code. It takes community, consistency, mentorship, and the courage to keep learning.

That’s the energy @itsberyl, @Shaki1Nannyombi , and @_RulesPlayer brought to #GopherConAfrica2026.

#WomenWhoGoAfrica #WomenInTech #Golang

[Gophercon Africa @gophers_africa]

🎤 Workshops are better when the room talks back.

Great questions from attendees this afternoon at #GopherConAfrica2026.

sqlc, templ, and profiling, with plenty of back and forth.

#Golang

[Gophercon Africa @gophers_africa]

☕ Lunch break at #GopherConAfrica2026

Half the value of a conference happens over a plate, not a slide.

The hallway track is very much alive today.

#Golang

[Gophercon Africa @gophers_africa]

✨ This is the part you can't put on a schedule.

The conversations, the laughter, the friendships forming in the hallway.

Day 1 mood at #GopherConAfrica2026.

#Golang

[Gophercon Africa @gophers_africa]

🔥 Building, shipping, and organizing at the same time

@adeshinaHH , @spankie_dee, @_RulesPlayer , @tonialaribe, @Orewoley, Kemunto Ochieng', and @marvin_hosea.

#GopherConAfrica2026 | Nairobi | Oct 15-17
#Golang #GoLang

[Gophercon Africa @gophers_africa]

🗓️ TOMORROW!

#GopherConAfrica2026 begins.

📍 Nairobi | Oct 15-17
See you there!

#Golang #GoLang #Nairobi #Kenya #TechConference

[Gophercon Africa @gophers_africa]

🤖 Coding agents can write a Go service end to end. They'll also confidently break every rule your system depends on.

@_bigzoo joins #GopherConAfrica2026 with:

Invariants Are the New Interface

📍 Nairobi | Oct 15-17
🎟️ https://t.co/1IZx40uYVc

#Go #AI #Kafka #Nairobi

[Gophercon Africa @gophers_africa]

📦 One line. A comment. And suddenly your files are inside the binary.

@ainsleydev joins #GopherConAfrica2026 with:

//go:embed: From Comment to Binary

Linker internals, tradeoffs, and production patterns.

📍 Nairobi | Oct 15-17
🎟️ https://t.co/1IZx40uYVc

#Golang #JetBrains

[Gophercon Africa @gophers_africa]

✈️ Two days out.

Bags packed, talks prepped, Nairobi ready.

#GopherConAfrica2026 opens Thursday. 🇰🇪

📍 PrideInn Azure Hotel | 📅 15-17 Oct
#Golang #GoLang

[Gophercon Africa @gophers_africa]

🚀 What does it take to build an internal developer platform in Go?

Sérgio Lourenço and Abdulrahman Jimoh join #GopherConAfrica2026 with:

ESHU: Building an Internal Development Platform in Go

📍 Nairobi | Oct 15-17
🎟️ https://t.co/1IZx40vwKK

#Go #PlatformEngineering #K8s

[Gophercon Africa @gophers_africa]

🤝 Meet our community sponsor: JetBrains

We're thrilled to welcome @jetbrains to #GopherConAfrica2026!

The team behind @GoLandIDE, and a long time supporter of the Go ecosystem worldwide.

📍 Nairobi | Oct 15-17
🎟️ https://t.co/1IZx40uYVc

#Golang #Sponsor #JetBrains #Kenya

[Women Who Go Africa @WWGAfrica]

Got questions? 👀 Bring them to our Women Who Go Fireside Chats! 🔥💙

[Gophercon Africa @gophers_africa]

🔥 Women Who Go: Fireside Chats

Real stories from women building with Go across Africa

@_RulesPlayer in conversation with @itsberyl and @Shaki1Nannyombi.

#GopherConAfrica2026 | Nairobi | Oct 15-17

🎟️ https://t.co/1IZx40uYVc

#Golang #WomenWhoGo #WomenInTech #Nairobi #Kenya