For the young learners at Mosi-Oa-Tunya High School, a visit from the media must be quite disconcerting.

They’re having their first lesson in the purpose-built Innovation Hub, learning how to take a photo of themselves and upload it to create an account on an iPad. But they’re distracted by journalists looking over their shoulders and by a sponsor confidently declaring that he fully expects the world’s next great IT icon to come from this school in a poor area of Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.