About Donal Digital Academy
Built by a practitioner. Designed for African realities.
Donal Digital Academy is the online learning arm of Donal Digital — the Lagos-based digital consulting practice founded by Okey Chigbu in 2012.
For over 12 years, Donal Digital has been helping African businesses build websites that work, run campaigns that generate clients, and develop the digital infrastructure that serious businesses need. Over that time, one pattern became impossible to ignore: the gap between what African professionals needed to learn and what was actually available to them.
Most online learning platforms are built for Western markets — priced in dollars, using examples from US or UK businesses, and teaching strategies that do not translate directly to the African context. The tools they recommend may not be accessible from Africa. The pricing benchmarks are wrong. The case studies are irrelevant. And most importantly, the instructors have never worked in the African market.
Donal Digital Academy was built to fill that gap.
Every course is taught by Okey Chigbu personally — not outsourced to guest instructors or sourced from global course libraries. Every example, every strategy, every tool recommendation is chosen with the Nigerian and African learner in mind. The pricing is in naira. The case studies are African. The context is real.
Our mission: To make practical, world-standard digital skills training genuinely accessible to African professionals, entrepreneurs, and business owners, at a price that respects the African economic reality and in a format that fits the African learner’s schedule.
Okey Chigbu — Founder and Lead Instructor
Okey Chigbu is a digital strategist, web designer, and educator with over 12 years of experience in the African digital market. He founded Donal Digital in Lagos as a strategy-first digital consulting practice serving SMEs, churches, and NGOs across Nigeria and the globe.
His work has covered web design and development, SEO, digital marketing strategy, funnel building, email marketing, and content production, all applied in the real conditions of the African market, not replicated from a foreign playbook.
Okey brings that same practical, market-aware approach to every course he teaches at Donal Digital Academy. His goal is simple: that every student leaves a course knowing not just the theory, but exactly how to apply it to a African business context, starting today.
