Tunga
About Company
This story is about untapping the potential of African tech talent. Being able to take control of and choose your own destiny is a universal value. And it probably is disproportionately so among software developers and startup entrepreneurs like ourselves. Therefore, Tunga was founded by not-for-profit design studio Butterfly Works and long-time social entrepreneur Ernesto Spruyt. Together with his colleague Bart Leijssenaar (CGO) and Michiel Huisman (Board Advisor), Ernesto is not only a tech person, but he also has a background in hospitality management.
To sum it up, Tunga is founded by ‘people-people’. We think that what you make of your life is your own responsibility. But we would like for everyone, especially the youth that holds the world’s future, to be free and able to take control of their own destiny.
In Africa, youths don’t have the same opportunities
But the reality is that in many parts of the world, the opportunity you have to determine your own destiny is limited by circumstances. By factors outside of your own control. In our search for software developers, we ended up on the African continent.
During our visits, through the WeAreBits School Network, we met many young African techies that are as brilliant and skilled as their counterparts from other parts of the world. But
