LeadAfrik · From Africa, for the world
Public economics
for African markets.
Research, tools, and a hands-on classroom. Analysis that stays close to implementation. Free where it matters.
Platform at a glance
Mjuzi — Expert AI
Ask anything about Kenya's economy, data, or platform tools. Free.
25+
Courses
African macro, public finance, policy
50+
African economies
Data cleaned, structured, cited
Live
Kenya rates & data
PAYE, SHIF, NSSF and FX, kept current
Free
Where it matters
The core mission, open to all
The Toolbox
Instruments for the mission,
and the tools people reach for daily.
Built for Africa
Policy Sandbox
Set interest rates, taxes, spending and tariffs — watch inflation, growth, debt and the shilling respond.
Open →Finance Tools Suite
40+ region-aware finance and economics calculators with transparent assumptions.
Open →Game Theory Machine
Solve any game — every pure and mixed Nash equilibrium, dominance, Pareto efficiency and the repeated-game cooperation threshold. Model a real situation with AI.
Open →Mwalimu Mkuu
School health, staff, learners, finances, BOM governance and CBC workspace — built for Kenya.
Open →Most used · career & documents
Browse everyday tools →Resume Builder
Live ATS score, 10 recruiter-tested templates, drag-to-reorder — PDF in one click.
Open →Cover Letter
Tailored cover letter from your resume and a job description — editable, no filler, PDF download.
Open →Employee Payslip Generator
Professional payslip with full PAYE 2024 bands, new NSSF, SHIF and Housing Levy — export as PDF.
Open →Resume Tailor
AI tailors your existing resume to any job description — with an honest matched-versus-missing report.
Open →Verifiable certificates
Pass a test.
Earn a certificate
employers can verify.
Every certificate has a public URL — employers see the exam, date, and score directly. No intermediary. No “trust me”.
Who this is for
Find your starting point.
Students & early career
Job-ready before your peers.
African macro, public finance and real data skills — the depth a desk or a ministry expects, long before graduation.
Analysts & operators
Instruments that stay close to the work.
Decision tools with every assumption visible — the finance suite, the Policy Sandbox, the Game Theory Machine, live Kenya rates and data.
Policymakers & civil servants
See the trade-offs before the budget.
Public finance, tax policy and cost-benefit thinking — plus a sandbox to test rates, taxes and spending against growth, inflation and debt.
SACCOs, universities & employers
Train and verify your people.
Bring the classroom to your members, students or staff — and verify every certificate by URL or QR, no self-reports.
The platform
Three working surfaces.
A classroom, a research hub, and a tool suite — built around the same question: what does the data actually say?
Decide
Run the numbers on the decisions that matter.
Free finance calculators across personal money, investing, business, tax, and macro — region-aware for Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, the UK, and the US.
Learn
A working classroom, not a reading list.
Courses across data analysis, finance, and economics — with live practice environments, verifiable certificates, and Mwalimu AI tutor.
Read
Follow the analysis, follow the data.
Longform analysis, source documents, datasets, and a monthly Kenyan macro snapshot.
The spirit of the work
Quality is the moat.
Transparency is the method.
The work is to turn complex systems — fiscal policy, household finance, market infrastructure — into things analysts and operators can actually use.
Public economics
Kenya-focused policy explanation, fiscal analysis, and evidence-based writing that stays accessible.
Decision tools
Interactive models that help households and operators reason through tradeoffs in real time.
Market infrastructure
Marketplace and workflow products designed to improve trust, discovery, and execution.
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Public economics work that stays close to implementation.
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