Why Africa Must Move from Using Artificial Intelligence to Curating the Intelligence of Its Own Existence By Niabari Fakae The next great question about artificial intelligence is not simply what machines will be able to do. It is whose knowledge will teach them, whose realities will shape their answers, whose languages they will understand, and […]
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What defines a “Serious” Nigerian Politician? There is a statement that has followed Chief Dumo Lulu-Briggs through his political journey. It is often whispered in conversations, repeated in political circles, and sometimes presented as though it were an established fact. “He is not serious.” I have often wondered what this really means. What does it
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Every economic revolution creates a window of opportunity. Those who recognise the moment, position early and execute effectively often build the enterprises and institutions that define the future. We are at the dawn of the age of the Singularity, driven by artificial intelligence and emerging technologies. For Africa, this presents a defining window of opportunity.
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The day I understood that music is simply a veil, a lens, a perspective through which one can look at life? My mind shifted, and something profound happened to me. Think about it. When an artist is writing a song, when they are putting words together and singing them into existence, what exactly are they
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There is a curve in your pocket right now. Run your thumb along the edge of your phone and you will feel it: the slight roundness at the corners, the gentle taper where the glass meets the frame, the way the whole object seems to have been shaped less by engineering than by seduction. Nobody
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There is a particular kind of homesickness that has nothing to do with geography. It is the ache for a rotary dial you can hear clicking back into place, for a doorframe carved with more flourish than function demanded, for the memory of a landline ringing through a house the way thunder announces rain before
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The Mosquito Knows Something We Don’t , this is the truth that hit me during a recent conversation with my father. My father is a scientist, trained in parasitology and entomology before life widened his focus into environmental science. We were talking about the sheer scale of the world, and somewhere in that conversation, a
There is a kind of power that does not announce itself. It does not arrive with a title, a uniform, or a seat of authority. It arrives quietly, in the shape of a phone screen and a thumb. And because it looks so ordinary, so many of the people who hold it never once suspect
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There is a term that surfaced during my research into digital participation, one I first encountered through academic discourse, offered by a tutor in the casual register of a seminar, though its implications were anything but casual. The term was phantom limb. In medical neuroscience, it describes one of the most haunting phenomena the human
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