Building the heartbeat of African teams.
We are a collective of designers, engineers, HR strategists, and storytellers crafting joyful tools for people operations across Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and South Africa. Our platform adapts to every regulation, currency, and cultural nuance so African ambition can scale fearlessly.
Pan-African Mission
Powering inclusive economies by simplifying work for every African employee.
Regional Studios
4
Country innovation labs
2,500+
African Employers
From fintech unicorns to state-backed institutions trust WorkFave HR.
320k
Employees Managed
Teams spanning Lagos, Accra, Nairobi, Cape Town & remote hubs.
42
Compliance Templates
Localized policies for tax, pensions, leaves, and labor laws.
24/7
Pan-African Support
Service desks covering WAT, EAT, and SAST time zones.
Pan-African Footprint
Distributed teams mirror our customers—each studio codes with regional insight while contributing to one shared platform.
Nigeria
Lagos Innovation Campus
Payroll rails, pension integrations, talent analytics for NG markets.
Ghana
Accra People Lab
Culture playbooks for Francophone and Anglophone West Africa.
Kenya
Nairobi Service Studio
AI-powered leave orchestration & compliance for East Africa.
South Africa
Cape Town Experience Hub
Hybrid work tooling, DEI dashboards, B-BBEE data connectors.
Community & Culture
Faces of WorkFave HR
Culture portraits, mural walls, and artisan crafts from partner collectives decorate our lounges. We celebrate the vibrant textures of Africa through every office installation and digital illustration.
18
African artists commissioned for brand visuals.
12
Culture exchanges hosted across our studios.
Our Journey
Born in Lagos, built for every African boardroom.
We iterate with HR leaders, payroll admins, emerging founders, and employee advocacy groups to craft human-centered software.
2019
Ideated in Yaba, Lagos
A cross-border founding team built the first prototype to solve fragmented payroll for multinational SME groups.
2020
Pan-African Compliance Engine
Shipped localized tax engines for Nigeria and Ghana while onboarding the first 50 enterprise clients remotely during lockdowns.
2022
Series A & Multilingual Launch
Expanded to Kenya and South Africa, rolled out Swahili and isiZulu employee experiences plus in-app FX payroll.
2024
Experience Cloud
Introduced AI-guided performance flows, culturally-aware onboarding journeys, and embedded analytics for leadership teams.
Leadership Circle
Led by operators who have scaled across Africa.
We merge deep HR expertise with continent-wide product craftsmanship. Our leaders obsess over trust, compliance, impact, and aesthetics—ensuring WorkFave HR feels unmistakably African.
ISO-ready security frameworks and SOC2 roadmap.
Advisory councils with HR execs from banking, telco, and tech ecosystems.
Pulse on African work trends, remote policies, and equitable pay indexes.
Lagos, Nigeria
Amara Okeke
Founder & CEO
Built workforce systems at two fintech scale-ups before pioneering WorkFave HR’s multi-country stack.
Accra, Ghana
Kwesi Tetteh
Chief Product Officer
Product futurist combining behavioral science with African labor policy to craft delightful experiences.
Johannesburg, South Africa
Lebo Dlamini
Chief People & Impact Officer
Championing inclusive workplaces, Lebo built DEI playbooks adopted by regional banks and telecoms.
Our Values
Designing with soul and rigor.
Each value connects to rituals—from morning stand-ups spoken in multiple languages to annual community immersions with customers.
People First
WorkFave HR DNA
Every workflow starts with empathy for African employees navigating complex realities.
Borderless Thinking
WorkFave HR DNA
We design with continental interoperability so teams can hire anywhere and pay everywhere.
Precision & Trust
WorkFave HR DNA
Compliance, data privacy, and resilience power every release we ship.
Joyful Innovation
WorkFave HR DNA
Interfaces glow, micro-interactions comfort, and automation removes admin fatigue.
Partner with Us
Let’s co-create the next chapter of African people operations.
Whether you are a startup expanding to Ghana or an enterprise harmonizing benefits across seven countries, WorkFave HR brings the playbooks, integrations, and artistry to make it seamless.