A full editorial vertical, not a sidebar. African AI labs, models built for African languages, AI in African healthcare and agriculture, and the policy decisions that will determine whether African countries are AI consumers or AI contributors.
INTERPOL says AI is now linked to 55% of reported cybercrime across Africa, with losses more than doubling to $484 million in a single year. The real story isn't that AI is new to fraud — it's that everything else was already too slow to keep up with it.
Plant disease detection from a phone camera is a well-suited problem for machine learning. Getting it to work for a smallholder in the Far North is a different question.
Benchmarks that report African language coverage tend to measure the wrong thing. What breaks is not translation quality but everything downstream of it.
Streaming responses, hopeful reconnects and generous payloads all assume a connection that a great many users do not have.
Annotation, moderation and evaluation are done by people, a great many of them in East and West Africa, and the conditions attached deserve more attention than they get.
