AI literacy made for tertiary students across Africa, and open to students everywhere. Understand the technology, dodge the risks, and turn AI into real study, work, and career skills.
Most students either fear AI or misuse it. This course makes you the person who understands it: how it works, where it lies, and how to make it genuinely useful.
Tokens, training, prediction, and why AI sounds confident even when it's wrong. No maths, no jargon.
Hallucinations, bias, data privacy, and IP. Learn the verification habit that keeps you out of trouble.
Prompting, study techniques, productivity workflows, and a personal toolkit you keep for your whole degree.
Your competitor isn't AI. It's the peer who learned it. Graduate as the AI-literate one in your field.
Each module has plain-language lessons, a hands-on exercise, and a short quiz. Roughly 4 to 5 hours total.
Every graduate earns a personalised certificate that anyone, anywhere, can verify in seconds.
No subscription and nothing recurring. One payment of R249 gives you 365 days to work through the course and earn your certificate. The certificate itself is yours permanently.
By paying you accept the Terms of Service, including the refund policy. At checkout you choose separately whether the course starts immediately.
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Because AI is already in your studies, your future workplace, and your pocket, whether you asked for it or you didn't. Students who understand how it works use it to learn faster and produce better work; students who don't either avoid it out of fear or misuse it and get caught out. Graduates who can use AI well, honestly, and with judgement are exactly what employers now look for. This course makes you that graduate.
Three things. It was born in Africa and engineered for real conditions here: the whole course weighs less than a minute of video, works offline after your first visit, and costs R249 for a full year of access. It is honest: it teaches you where AI fails, why it fails, and how to verify, rather than selling hype. And it ends in a certificate that can actually be verified by anyone you show it to.
The entire course is smaller than a short video clip. After your first visit it is saved on your phone or computer and works with your data switched off: every lesson and every exercise. Quizzes are the one part that needs a connection, because they are marked by us rather than by your browser, and that is what stops a certificate being awarded to someone who never did the work. If you answer a quiz while your data is off, your answers are kept and marked automatically the moment you reconnect, so nothing is lost, but do try to be online when you reach a quiz so you see your result straight away. You also need a connection to pay, and someone verifying your certificate needs one too.
Yes, of course. AfriLearn is made with African students in mind, and it is open to everyone, everywhere. The skills, the honesty about how AI works, and the verifiable certificate travel well. Payment is in South African rand (R249, roughly US$14).
Yes, from the first lesson, and it takes about a minute. Module 1 is still free and still needs no card, but it does need an account. The account is deliberately simple: your name, your email address, and a 6 digit code we send you to confirm it. There is no password to invent or forget. The reason we ask is that progress kept in a browser is fragile: study on a library computer, clear your browser, or move from a phone to a laptop, and it is gone with nothing we can do to recover it. With an account, your progress and every quiz result are held on our side and follow you to any device. Buying the full course later uses the same account, so your purchase, access and certificate are tied to an email address you have already confirmed and cannot be lost.
Paying unlocks the full course for 365 days. The certificate is earned separately: you must pass the quiz for every one of the ten modules, capstone included, at 75 percent or better, and you must do it within your 365 days. You can take the modules in any order you like; what matters is that all ten are passed, not the order you pass them in. Quizzes are marked on our servers rather than in your browser, so a pass is a record we hold and not a claim your device makes. If you do not pass a module you may try again after 48 hours, which is there so the quiz measures what you know rather than what you can remember from the answers we just showed you.
Issue is automatic. The moment your last outstanding module is marked as passed, whichever module that happens to be, we tell you the course is complete, issue your certificate and email it to you. There is no button to hunt for and nothing to apply for. If you finished on another device, it is issued the next time you sign in. Every certificate carries a unique, cryptographically signed ID. Anyone can type that ID into our verification page and instantly see that it is genuine, in whose name it was issued, and when. Once earned it is permanent and keeps verifying long after your course access ends.
Your R249 gives you a year from the day you pay. In that year you have the whole course, every quiz and unlimited attempts, subject to the 48 hour wait after a module you did not pass. If you finish and pass all ten modules, you earn your certificate and it is yours permanently: it keeps verifying long after the year ends. If the year runs out first, course access stops and you can start a fresh year for R249. Nothing renews automatically and we will never charge you without you choosing to pay. Your progress and every quiz you have already passed are kept, so a second year picks up exactly where you stopped rather than starting again.
When you finish a quiz we show you which answers were right, because that is how you learn from it. Without a wait, that same screen would also be an answer sheet for an immediate second attempt, and the certificate would stop meaning anything. So a module you did not pass opens again after 48 hours. A module you passed is not affected. Use the two days: reread the lesson and the answers you missed.
Yes, in about ten seconds, with no login: they open the verify page, paste your certificate ID, and see the result. A certificate that fails verification, or one whose ID does not exist, is not ours. This is why a screenshot cannot fake it.
Module 1 is completely free, no card needed. It does need a free account, which takes your name, your email and a 6 digit code, so that your progress is saved to you rather than to a single browser. The full course is R249, paid securely through PayFast, and that gives you 365 days of access. There is no subscription and nothing renews automatically. If your year runs out before you finish, you can pay R249 again to start a fresh year, and your progress and every quiz you have passed are still there when you do. A certificate you earned during your year stays yours and stays verifiable afterwards.
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