What African Founders Actually Think About AI Tools
Adoption is high and enthusiasm is lower than the marketing suggests. Founders describe real productivity gains alongside costs and constraints that rarely make the pitch.
AI & Emerging Technology
What artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies mean for African workers, businesses and governments. Concrete and grounded, not speculative.
Why Language Models Struggle With African Languages
The gap is not linguistic difficulty. It is that the text these systems learn from was scraped from a web that barely contains these languages.
What AI Is Actually Being Used For, Once You Look Past the Announcements
The deployed applications are less exciting and more useful than the ones that get launch coverage: document handling, triage, translation and fraud detection.
The Compute Question Nobody Wants to Answer
Training capacity is concentrated in a handful of countries. What that means for everyone else is a question of strategy, not sentiment.