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News and features on artificial intelligence in Ghana and Africa
South Africa’s New Government Chatbot Was Meant to Fight Fake News. Critics Question Its Effectiveness
A pilot AI tool from the government's communications agency fabricated a grant announcement, called the ruling party corrupt, and drew mockery online for looking unfinished, days before local elections
Flutterwave Co-Founder Has A New Start-Up That Wants to Train a Million AI Engineers in Africa
Talent Nation, backed by Enza Capital and LocalGlobe, is betting that AI will create demand for more engineers, not fewer.
“Make AI Work for Your Business”: MEST Africa’s Enyonam Damesi on Bringing Practical AI to SMEs
An interview with Enyonam Damesi, Head of Marketing at MEST Africa
AI’s Next Divide Isn’t Who Uses It. It’s Who Can Afford a Phone
A new GSMA report warns that surging memory chip prices, driven by the AI boom itself, are pricing billions of people out of the internet entirely
Viamo Launches 231 Voice Platform in Ghana, Creating a New National Channel for Inclusive Communication and Offline AI
Viamo's new voice platform, built with MTN, lets people ask an AI questions in six local languages using any basic mobile phone
Intron Unveils Sahara v2.5, Bringing Natural African Language Mixing to Voice AI
A Lagos startup says its new model understands code-switching — the mid-sentence language mixing common across the continent — better than Google and Meta.
Ghana’s Finance Ministry Turns to Eskwai for Legal Research
The Legal Directorate at the Ministry of Finance will use Eskwai, an AI research tool built on African legal databases, marking the first team-wide adoption of legal AI inside a Ghanaian government department
Bolt Rides Now Bookable Through ChatGPT in South Africa
The ride-hailing firm joins a wave of companies embedding services directly into AI chat interfaces, betting that conversation will replace apps as the default booking tool.
From Vision to Execution: What to Expect at One Vecta Africa AI Week 2026
Artificial Intelligence is no longer a future concept, it is transforming how governments deliver services, how businesses compete, and how…
Google and Idris Elba Bet $1 Million on AI for African Creators
The partnership will give roughly 100,000 filmmakers, writers and artists across five countries access to Gemini and other tools, part of a broader push to close Africa's production gap