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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
NewsBuilding AI in Africa · News
Africa's AI Fortnight Was About Small Models and Speech Data. That Is the Point.
The World Bank's October advice and the work that actually shipped in the same fortnight point the same way: small models, local speech data, shared compute, and power before scale.
Ibrahim Denis Fofanah·Oct 17, 2026·9 min