Despite significant advances in AI policy development, implementation across Africa remains fragmented and weakly accountable. This piece examines the institutional and governance bottlenecks behind this gap. It advances an Africa-centered approach to AI ethics and accountability grounded in local values and institutional realities. Africa stands at a critical inflection point in its technological history. The… Continue reading From Strategy to Implementation: Why Africa’s AI Governance Must Move Beyond Ambition
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Sub-Saharan: The Term We Should Retire
Though widely used, the term is historically racialised and geographically incoherent. Africa can be described without resorting to simplified colonial labels. There’s a term we read and hear in a lot of Africa-related media and academia. Sub-Saharan Africa. Several years ago, I made the conscious decision to stop using this term in anything I write.… Continue reading Sub-Saharan: The Term We Should Retire
Religion meets realpolitik
Members of the St Francis Catholic Church take part in a Way of the Cross re-enactment of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ on Good Friday during Holy Week in Lagos, Nigeria [File: Sunday Alamba/AP Photo] Trump threatens Nigeria with military action over alleged persecution of Christians. But the violence in the country has entirely different… Continue reading Religion meets realpolitik
The Afropolitan 