[1][2] Code for Africa was founded by Justin Arenstein in 2012 to develop resources to make data more accessible.

[4][5] In 2015, Code for Africa received $4.7m from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to fund data projects in Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Tanzania on health and development journalism.

[6] In 2016, Code for Africa launched impactAFRICA Data Journalism Fund worth $500,000 with the International Center for Journalists, and funding from Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and the World Bank.

[7] In 2017, Google announced a training in collaboration with Code for Africa and World Bank for data journalism.

[9] During the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, Deutsche Welle partnered with Code for Africa to set up fact-checking in various Kenyan media houses through it PesaCheck initiative.