Est. 2019 Dar es Salaam

Python Tanzania,
OSS Community.

From a handful of enthusiasts in Dar es Salaam to the team that brought DjangoCon Africa to the continent — twice. Python Tanzania runs the conferences, workshops, and meetups that grow the country's developers.

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Python Tanzania
Python Tanzania
Three initiatives, one community
ACTIVE

Django
Girls

Her first web app, mentored

PyCon
Tanzania

The national Python stage

PyData
Tanzania

Data & ML on local problems
The journey

How Python took root

A real sequence with each year built on the one before it.

2019

First PyCon Tanzania

The inaugural national Python conference — grown out of grassroots meetups and Django Girls workshops, and backed by the Python and Django Software Foundations.

Where it all began
2020

PyCon Tanzania

Data science, ethical hacking, forensic investigation and cloud computing — with networking at the centre.

2022

PyCon Tanzania

The fourth edition — momentum that set the stage for hosting DjangoCon Africa.

2019 · 20 · 21 · 22 · 24

Django Girls Tanzania

Free workshops alongside every PyCon — 30–60 women build and deploy their first web app each time.

2021

PyCon Tanzania

A strong data science and AI/ML track, plus the Fourth Industrial Revolution and cybersecurity.

2024

Fifth PyCon Tanzania

300+ attendees and 100+ students over five days.

2026 — new

PyData Tanzania

Data science joins the line-up — tutorials, talks and sprints across data, ML and the wider Python ecosystem.

2026 — next

Sixth PyCon Tanzania

The next national conference is in planning — bigger workshops, more students, wider reach.

On the continental stage

Tanzania hosted DjangoCon Africa — twice.

The first-ever DjangoCon Africa came to Zanzibar in 2023, and the second to Arusha in 2025 — organised by this community for developers from across the continent and beyond.

Zanzibar 2023 Arusha 2025
Ubuntu in Tanzania

UbuCon Africa came to Arusha.

In 2025 the community co-hosted UbuCon Africa alongside DjangoCon Africa in Arusha — held on Django's 20th anniversary, and bringing the Ubuntu and wider open-source community together with developers from across the continent.

Arusha 2025
Community

Three initiatives, one community

Each one opens a different door into Tanzania's Python ecosystem — from a first workshop to a national stage.

PyCon
Tanzania

The national Python conference — five days of talks, workshops, and lightning talks. Sixth edition in 2026.

Conference Networking
Five days of talks and workshops

PyData Tanzania

Meetups and workshops for data science, machine learning, and AI — turning Python skills into practical work on local problems.

Data science AI / ML
PyCon · all editions
Attendees 1000+
Speakers 100+
Students 500+

Django Girls Tanzania

Free, beginner-friendly workshops where women build and deploy their first web application — with mentors guiding every step.

Inclusion Workshops Mentored
The programme

The full five-day timetable

One conference, five days — 10–14 November 2026 in Dar es Salaam. Django Girls opens the week, PyData brings the workshops and talks, and PyCon closes it out. Each track also lives on its own site; this is the whole picture in one place.

5
days · 10–14 Nov 2026
45+
sessions across the week
3
tracks · Django Girls · PyData · PyCon
20+
workshop leaders & speakers
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Day 1 — Django Girls · Foundations

Tuesday 10 November · set-up, Python basics & the web

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Django Girls days live on djangogirls.deploy.tz · PyData on pydata.deploy.tz · PyCon on pycontanzania.deploy.tz

In their words

Real voices from the community

I used to think Python was hard. After practising it here, it clicked — and I left sure I could build web applications myself.

PC
Student participant
PyCon Tanzania 2024
Attendees coding together around shared tables at PyCon Tanzania
PyCon Tanzania · sprint tables
PC

There's a huge amount of energy in this community — people sharing real experience and the technologies they're actually building.

Participant
PyCon Tanzania 2024
DG

Through Django Girls I learned to build a web app step by step — there were always mentors ready to show us what to do next.

Workshop participant
Django Girls · PyCon 2024
The full cohort of attendees gathered at a Python Tanzania event
The whole room
Everyone who showed up
A packed workshop hall of participants working on laptops
Workshop floor
Attendees spread across tables during a conference work session
On the day
The people

The team behind every event

A small secretariat and a wider circle of volunteers — the people who plan, organise, and run Python Tanzania's conferences and workshops.

Noah Maina, Convener and Lead Organizer, addressing the room at PyCon Tanzania Lead

Noah Maina

Convener & Lead Organizer

Coordinates the community's conferences, workshops, and partnerships — keeping every edition moving from first plan to final talk.

Lupyana, Secretariat, Python Tanzania

Lupyana

Secretariat
Julius, Secretariat, Python Tanzania

Julius

Secretariat
CatherineRose, Secretariat, Python Tanzania

CatherineRose

Secretariat
Fuad, Secretariat, Python Tanzania

Fuad

Secretariat
Mtuchi, Secretariat, Python Tanzania

Mtuchi

Secretariat
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Awadhi

Secretariat
Support

Support & Volunteers

The hands that make each event run on the day — registration and check-in, logistics, session support, AV and media, hospitality, and everything in between.

Zee, Support & Volunteers, Python Tanzania
Zee
Support & Volunteers
James, Support & Volunteers, Python Tanzania
James
Support & Volunteers
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Python Tanzania

Join the community

Whether you're writing your first line of code or running production systems, there's a place for you in Tanzania's Python community.

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