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AnalysisBuilding AI in Africa · Analysis
Three Plans to Share Africa's AI Computing Power Landed in Six Days. The Hard Numbers Are Still Missing.
In six days, three separate proposals told African governments the same thing: do not build your own AI data centre, share the computing instead. One has $10 billion attached. One has no funding figure at all. One is a proposal between four countries.
Ibrahim Denis Fofanah·Oct 26, 2026·14 min
AnalysisBuilding AI in Africa · Analysis
Sovereign AI Got Hardware This Week: Two Deals, Two Very Different Tests
Two announcements in two days put real hardware and real compute credits behind the word sovereign. One is a single enterprise stack in Johannesburg. The other is an allocation network across 53 countries. Neither published the numbers that would prove it works.
Ibrahim Denis Fofanah·Oct 22, 2026·10 min