Shared workspaces
Fully-equipped makerspaces with tools for woodworking, metalwork, electronics, textiles and digital fabrication.
Not-for-profit · Since 2018
If you can make it, you can change something.
CoMakers Africa runs makerspaces across Nigeria — shared workshops, shared tools, open to anyone with something to build. Come and use them.
What we offer
Three ways in, depending on what you need
Training programmes
Workshops and courses from basic tool safety through advanced fabrication and the business of making.
Space development
We help people and organisations set up their own makerspaces using models we've already proven.
CoMakers Africa by the numbers
- Makerspaces open
- 3
- Cities
- 3
- Types of equipment
- 11
- Years running
- 8
Our makerspaces
Workshops you can walk into
Flagship
Owerri, Imo
Owerri Innovation Hub
Our flagship space: 5,000 sq ft of workshop with CNC machines, 3D printers, laser cutters and a full electronics lab.
- 3D Printers
- CNC Machines
- Electronics Lab
Abuja, FCT
Abuja Creative Lab
Focused on digital fabrication and textile innovation, serving the maker community in the capital.
- 3D Printers
- Co-working
- Textile Lab
Port Harcourt, Rivers
Port Harcourt Maker Center
Industrial prototyping and marine technology for the Niger Delta region.
- 3D Printers
- Metal Shop
- Water Testing
Coming up
Book onto a workshop
Laser Cutter Induction
The two-hour induction required before you can book the laser cutter unsupervised.
₦3,000
3D Printing for Beginners
From a drawing on screen to an object in your hand. No experience needed.
₦5,000
Welding Fundamentals
MMA and MIG basics on real steel, with the safety induction that lets you use the bay unsupervised afterwards.
₦12,000
Writing
From the workshop
What a makerspace actually costs to run
People ask us how much it costs to open a makerspace. That is the wrong question — opening one is the cheap part.
Five machines worth learning first
New members often want to start on the most impressive tool in the room. Here is a better order.
Buying tools in Nigeria without getting burned
Counterfeit brands, grey imports and the specific traps in the local tool market.
Ready to start making?
Whether you have twenty years of workshop experience or have never held a soldering iron, there’s a bench here for you.