The curriculum
From your first question to reading a company.
A guided introduction to money, ownership, and Ethiopia's capital markets — built for people starting from zero. Free, self-paced, and bilingual. The full course lives on the MELA learning platform.
The idea
A first course in ownership — for people the market was never built for.
Not a generic finance class. A calm, plain-language path that takes someone who has never bought a share and gives them the confidence to understand Ethiopia's markets and decide, independently, whether and how to take part.
Start from zero
No finance background needed. If you can work out a percentage, you have enough — everything else is taught from the ground up.
Grounded in Ethiopia
Every idea is anchored in Ethiopian reality — the birr, the equb and idir, bank shares, and the exchange now opening.
Yours to pace
Free, bilingual, and self-paced. Move through it on your own time, on any device, and pick up where you left off.
The MELA learning platform
The full course lives inside the platform.
Five modules, interactive tools, a glossary, and your saved progress — a complete, self-paced course in one place. Sign in with your MELA account to begin.
Enter the platformAccess is granted to enrolled learners. Interested? Request an account.
A taste
Try one of the tools
A small sample of what's inside — the MELA Calculator turns two of the market's most useful numbers into something you can feel with your own birr.
For learning only. Not investment advice.