The @Code4Africa community is home to ~3,000 hacktivists in a pan-African federation that includes the WanaData women data science/storytelling network, the continent's largest fact-checking initiative (in 12 countries) at PesaCheck, Code for Africa's (CfA) affiliate tech/data labs in 20 countries, plus the ANCIR community of data-driven investigative journalists, the iLAB forensic analysts, the StoryLab multimedia journalism newsroom, Africa's largest digital journalism skills initiative at the Academy, the africanDRONE civic drone network, the sensors.AFRICA citizen science activists, and a wide spread of independent civic technology pioneers.