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Thank you to the PyCon Uganda team for hosting PyCon Africa 2026 in Kampala.
A heartfelt thank you to the local chairs, Hassan, Dorothy and Joannah, and to the PyCon Rwanda and PyCon Kenya teams for helping organise the event.
Thank you to all our sponsors.
Thank you to everyone who joined us in Kampala. Goodbye for now, until the next PyCon Africa.
Anne Fleur van Luenen gave a short talk in the Security/Web track on the last day of PyCon Africa 2026.
The talk, "PaSSw0rdVib3s!: Finding Passwords in Digital Evidence," looked at how passwords can be found in digital evidence.
Thank you, Anne Fleur, and to everyone who joined us in Kampala.
Thank you to the organising team of PyCon Africa 2026.
Joannah, LOC Chair, Ariane, IOC Chair, Hassan Bahati, Dorothy and Steven, together with all the other volunteers, made the event great.
Thank you, and to everyone who joined us in Kampala.
All attendees of PyCon Africa 2026 came together for a group photo with Guido van Rossum after his keynote and fireside session with Sumaiya.
It was the moment everyone at the event had been waiting for.
Thank you, Guido and Sumaiya, and to everyone who joined us in Kampala.
Some attendees at PyCon Africa 2026 won hoodies for posting about the event and tagging our PyCon socials.
The winners shared a photo moment with the PyCon Africa leads.
Congratulations to the winners, and thank you to everyone who shared PyCon Africa online and joined us in Kampala.
The PyCon Africa 2026 hoodies are now available for pick up at the venue for everyone who made a purchase.
Johannes Kolbe tried his on in the venue just after his talk.
Thank you to everyone who ordered one, and to everyone who joined us in Kampala.
On the last day of PyCon Africa 2026, Jonnathan Saly led a session in the Refugee program.
The session talked participants through the basics of Python.
Thank you, Jonnathan, and to everyone who joined us in Kampala.
The PyCon Africa Closing Address on the last day of PyCon Africa 2026 was delivered by Hassan Bahati and Dorothy Kabarozi.
Together they brought the conference to a close and looked back on the days we shared in Kampala.
Thank you, Hassan and Dorothy, and to everyone who joined us in Kampala.
The closing keynote on the last day of PyCon Africa 2026 came from Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python.
Guido joined us by video call for “The Evolution of Python: Lessons from Its Creator,” an interview with Sumaiya looking back at how Python has evolved and the lessons from creating it.
Thank you, Guido, for closing PyCon Africa 2026 with us, to Sumaiya for leading the conversation, and to everyone who joined us in Kampala.
Ubaydah Abdulwasiu gave a short talk in the General Python, Web/DevOps track on the last day of PyCon Africa 2026.
The talk, “Append-Only Event Sourcing for Tamper-Evident Audit Trails in Python,” looked at using append-only event sourcing in Python to build audit trails that are tamper-evident.
Thank you, Ubaydah, and to everyone who joined us in Kampala.
Bernard Katamanso gave a short talk in the Security/Web track on the last day of PyCon Africa 2026.
His talk, “Delivering with Django: Boring Tech, Real Impact in Africa's Startups,” looked at how choosing proven, “boring” technology like Django can help African startups deliver real impact.
Thank you, Bernard, and to everyone who joined us in Kampala.
Efe Omoregie gave a short talk in the Security/Web track on the last day of PyCon Africa 2026.
His talk, “Background Jobs at Scale: Designing Reliable Python Worker Systems,” looked at designing Python worker systems that run background jobs reliably at scale.
Thank you, Efe, and to everyone who joined us in Kampala.
Gersona Andrianarijaona gave a short talk in the ML/Data Science track on the last day of PyCon Africa 2026.
Her talk, “Continuous translation with Weblate in the age of AI,” looked at continuous translation with Weblate, an open-source continuous localization tool, and at where that work stands now that AI is part of the picture.
Thank you, Gersona, and to everyone who joined us in Kampala.
Christine Akoto-Nimoh gave a short talk in the ML/Data Science track on the last day of PyCon Africa 2026.
Her talk, “Building Clinical Tools in Data-Constrained Environments: Python, ML, and the Human Spine,” looked at building clinical tools for the human spine with Python and machine learning in environments where data is limited.
Thank you, Christine, and to everyone who joined us in Kampala.
John Paul Rugaba gave a short talk in the ML/Data Science track on the last day of PyCon Africa 2026.
His talk, “V-MATH and Veri-Math: Step Level Verification for Enhancing Mathematical Reasoning in Large Language Models,” looked at step-level verification: checking each step of a large language model's mathematical reasoning to make that reasoning stronger.
Thank you, John Paul, and to everyone who joined us in Kampala.
David Agbolade spoke in the Security/Web track on the last day of PyCon Africa 2026.
His talk, “From Single Agents to Production Teams: Building Multi-Agent Systems with Python, MCP, and Persistent Memory,” looked at moving from single AI agents to production teams of agents, built with Python, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and persistent memory.
Thank you, David, and to everyone who joined us in Kampala.
Johannes Kolbe spoke in the ML/Data Science track on the last day of PyCon Africa 2026.
His talk, “The Lazy Wizard's Guide to Federated Learning: Building ML Models in Difficult Places,” looked at federated learning, which trains models across many devices or sites without pooling the data in one place, and at building ML models where data or connectivity is hard to come by.
Thank you, Johannes, and to everyone who joined us in Kampala.
The opening keynote on the last day of PyCon Africa 2026 was delivered by Jade Abbott.
Her talk, “A Decade of Language AI: A Reflection on the Insanity,” looked back on ten years of rapid change in language AI: what shifted, what surprised the field, and what it means for the people building with these tools today.
Thank you, Jade, for opening our final day, and to everyone who joined us in Kampala.
The last day of PyCon Africa 2026 opened with remarks from Ariane Djeupang, International Chair of PyCon Africa.
Her “Opening Remarks and Overview” welcomed everyone back for the final day and walked through the keynotes, talks and sessions still ahead.
Thank you, Ariane, for setting the tone, and to everyone who joined us in Kampala for the last day of PyCon Africa 2026.
Your MC for the last day of PyCon Africa 2026 in Albert Hall: Sumaiya Nalukwago 🎤🐍 Programs lead for PyCon Africa, PyCon Uganda organizer since 2023, Women Techmakers Ambassador and GDG Cloud Community Lead.
Final day of PyCon Africa 2026 🐍🌍 Days of talks, workshops and conversation in Kampala, and today we close it out. Thank you to everyone who made it happen. #PyConAfrica2026 #Python #Community
Audio in Python at PyCon Africa 2026 🎧🐍 Bashir Kasujja explained sampling, waveforms and signal processing, then demoed a live voice transformation tool with pitch shifting and echo. A beginner-friendly look at how approachable audio programming is.
Python on microcontrollers at PyCon Africa 🔌🐍 Samuel Lunghe introduced MicroPython and the Wokwi simulator, a way to write, wire and test embedded projects in the browser with no hardware needed. #PyConAfrica2026 #Python #MicroPython #IoT #EmbeddedSystems
Short talk in the Core Python track at PyCon Africa 2026 📚🐍 Fanny Nyayic on crafting legendary documentation for Python projects. Docs are part of the product: they lower the barrier for users and contributors and make projects easier to maintain. #PyConAfrica2026 #Python #Documentation #OpenSource
Day 4 of PyCon Africa 2026: lunch in the courtyard.
Between sessions, attendees from across the continent took a break to eat, talk and swap ideas. Conferences are about the talks, and they’re also about the hallway conversations, the introductions and the friendships that come from sitting down together.
Thank you to everyone who made time to connect, and to the team that kept the food and the atmosphere going.
“Python doesn’t scale” myth-busting at PyCon Africa 2026 🐍 Moses Daudu (AI Engineer, Path) compared FastAPI and Flask under load, walked through a scaling blueprint with Redis, Celery, PgBouncer and Kubernetes, and explained why the GIL matters less than people think for I/O-bound apps. #PyConAfrica2026 #Python #FastAPI #Flask
Lightning talk at PyCon Africa 2026 🐍 Bernard Katamanso, co-runner of GDG UMaT, shared three lessons on running a dev community as a student: watch actions more than slogans, be a force multiplier and not a gatekeeper, and give vision support with a shared repo, clear norms and a newcomer guide. #PyConAfrica2026 #Python #DeveloperCommunity
Open Source, Research and Industry panel at PyCon Africa 2026 🐍 Research, open-source packages and production systems depend on each other, and this panel looked at where they connect. With Kenneth Musasizi, Roland Gafana, Hassan Kibirige (plotnine, mizani) and Shakira Ndagire. Takeaway: code that others can install, reproduce and build on is what makes research useful. #PyConAfrica2026 #OpenSource #Python
Lightning talk at PyCon Africa 2026 🐍 Angella Miriam Birungi argued that backend developers should care about UX: data structures, API design and workflow handling shape the user experience as much as the UI does. Practical tips for beginner to intermediate devs, drawn from real school-system projects. #PyConAfrica2026 #Python #UX #BackendDevelopment
FastDRS at PyCon Africa 2026 🩺🐍 Michael Mukiibi (Rift Research Labs) walked through building a diabetic retinopathy screening system in Python, comparing ResNet, DenseNet, ConvNeXt, Swin and MobileNet on macro F1, sensitivity, specificity, latency and model size, then moving toward API and mobile deployment.
#PyConAfrica2026 #Python #ComputerVision #MedicalAI #PyTorch #MachineLearning
The opening keynote at PyCon Africa 2026 was delivered by Chris Orwa.
His talk, “Building AI-Powered Lending Infrastructure,” put a real-world problem on the main stage: how AI and data systems can power lending, and what it takes to build that infrastructure well. For a community that writes Python for a living, it was a strong way to open the conference.
Thank you, Chris, for kicking things off, and to everyone who joined us in Kampala for the start of PyCon Africa 2026.