In January 2020, the Center for African Studies supported Mohamed Ally Iddi, a rising senior studying computer science at Harvard College, to travel and organize a three-week coding boot camp named “BitHub255” for students in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, during J-Term.

The aim of the project was to demystify computer science by introducing students to the basics of programming using Python. Mohamed collaborated with two students Edmund Sepeku (Rochester ‘22) and Akram Ismail...