A warning has been sounded that every African should take seriously: Western powers are preparing to cut Africa off from the AI revolution, just as they locked Nigerians out of PayPal for 21 years. OpenAI has restricted access to its latest technologies, while AI-driven cybercrime now costs Africa $484... million and drives 55 percent of reported cyberattacks. African developers are turning to open-source platforms like DeepSeek and Kimi, which offer lower costs and local adaptability. Nigeria, Kenya, and South Africa are drafting AI policies to safeguard data sovereignty, and Nigeria has unveiled the ATLAS Network to develop home-grown AI. The message is clear: Africa does not need permission to build. Access is not ownership, and dependency is not strategy. Africa must build, Africa must innovate, and Africa must rise.show more

That's why those guys that built drones in Abuja shouldn't have allowed foreign investors especially from the US. I'm sure they could have raised any amount needed locally.

Use the opportunity to build your own

Africa doesn't exist. That's where we need to start from. Geography is not enough. What we have is 54 or 55 separate states, in essentially pre-capitalist, semi-colonial societies, supplyers of raw materials, with settler colonies in the North and at its Southern tip.

I am skeptic of the western agenda for African so I agree with the spirit of your message. You just need to tighten and validate your claims. Those Anthropic Mythos Class model restrictions were on everyone not including US Tech companies. It’s now available in a nerfed version so it’s untrue that it’s restricted from us specifically

Interpol don't know what they're saying, as for me, I've already pivited to Chinese models and I'm getting better results.

The #1 problem of Africa is not AI lockout. The #1 problem of Africa is Islam. That bloodsucking Arab cult hates innovation. Get rid of the cult and watch Africa rise, with or without the West.

I'm curious, how will Africa use Ai? No stable electricity, poor infrastructure, greedy leaders, weak institutions. All our talents have left because our environment is not sustainable at all.

Those are the best conditions to develop the sector at massive scale but we have to solve the issue of power generation. We can't achieve these without sovereignty, cos the usual suspects will try to stop the development like they have suppressed Africa's effort to industrialize

I think this needs to prop Africa up. Nothing works better than a good shot of reality.

Interesting days ahead

😰😱 to bad for Africa, with all the resources and brain we should be growing like China if not for people allowing bad governments to mislead the masses into suffering as if that's the birthright of Africans in this world, too suffer 😐Stop mediocre and bad leaderships in Africa

Africa will be able to act in AI or any other field only once an African federal state with its own language, Kiswahili, its army, central bank, currency and goverment will be in place. Only then will Africa exist, conceive, establish and enact offensive defense policies.

We’ve known from day 1

Just use Chinese AI then. Some of them are better.

Can’t we just work with the Chinese ecosystem?

Africa is a Zoo