Digital transformation: Why Africa should build its own AI giants

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Prof Bitange Ndemo, a leading advocate of Africa’s digital transformation, once said: “Africa stands at a crossroads: we can either remain consumers of foreign Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies or become architects of our own future by building homegrown AI giants.”

Now, AI is no longer a distant dream in Africa; it has already become a key tool for transforming the continent, sector by sector from healthcare, finance, to agriculture.

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