African Tech Futurism

The dominant AI / EI conversation is being written from a small handful of geographies and a smaller handful of philosophies. The essays here argue that this is a structural problem — for the conversation, for the technology, and for the people on the receiving end. African tech futurism is not a parochial concern. It is the test of whether the emerging order can hold relational ontology, communal ethics, and a working memory of colonial extraction at the centre rather than at the margin. Reading list covers Ubuntu and the machine, the digital Berlin conference essays, and the alignment-theatre piece on Western AI safety performance.