Bitcoin in Africa Is Building Hubs and Routes for Its Community
Gorilla Sats has mapped a nine day route through Uganda, Kenya, and Zambia. This route forms its new Pan African Bitcoin Tour, running in March 2027. The Uganda-based company announced the trip this week, with stops at grassroots Bitcoin projects in all three countries. Meanwhile, Dada Hub, the women only Bitcoin building space in Nairobi, has also been expanding. It is growing how Dadas stay connected to the wider community. Together, both stories show Bitcoin in Africa moving beyond conference halls.
The Pan African Bitcoin Tour
The tour runs from 7 to 15 March 2027. It costs 0.056 BTC per person and covers four days in Uganda, three in Kenya, and two in Zambia. First, in Uganda, travelers trek to see mountain gorillas in Bwindi. They also visit Bitcoin Kampala and stop by the Orphans of Uganda Bitcoin school. Next, in Kenya, the group tours Afribit Kibera, Africa’s best known Bitcoin circular economy. This community lets people earn and spend Bitcoin locally, without ever converting it to cash. They also visit the Gridless Bitcoin mining project. Finally, the tour closes in Zambia, with stops at Bitcoin Victoria Falls and BitJR Academy, a youth coding program.
The route also connects to the wider Bitcoin calendar. Flights on Day 1 depart from Cape Town. This timing suits travelers coming from Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town, a conference running 26 to 27 February 2027. It also lines up with Gorilla Sats’ own Garden Route Road Trip, which runs just before it.
Dada Hub Grows Its Community
Lorraine Marcel founded Dada Hub in March 2026. She also founded Bitcoin Dada, an institution that trains African women in Bitcoin and open-source development. Its launch announcement describes Dada Hub as Africa’s first physical Bitcoin developer space for women. The space offers a place to learn, research, and build. This includes work with Lightning, a fast, low cost payment layer that runs on top of Bitcoin.
Marcel built the hub so that women could experiment and lead, rather than only take part from the sidelines. Beyond the physical space, Dada Hub now runs a WhatsApp channel. There, members can follow events, programs, and opportunities across Africa’s wider tech ecosystem.
Bitcoin conferences across Africa keep growing, from the Africa Bitcoin Conference to Adopting Bitcoin Nairobi and now Cape Town. Yet a busy conference calendar does not build an ecosystem on its own. Gorilla Sats and Dada Hub are adding something more, real infrastructure. Together they give outsiders a route to see Bitcoin working on the ground. They also give local builders a permanent space to keep working long after the conferences end.