Africa’s GDP is rising.
Why isn’t your life?
GDP made sense in 1934 America. It makes no sense in 2025 Lagos, Nairobi or Johannesburg.
See why - 2 min read.
Language is canvas
Gen AI collides with African visual artists turning the continent’s linguistic diversity into a visual gallery. An ode to the visual artists I love.
Nah. I am obsessed.
View the gallery.
Africa is not a Dataset.
It’s the Architect.
For most African languages, invisibility isn’t a glitch - it’s a design flaw. David Ifeoluwa Adelani is rewriting that script. Through participatory research and community-built datasets, he reframes Africa not as the dataset, but as the architect of multilingual AI. This five-part Rubic traces paradigm-shifting ideas that challenge the bias baked into today’s models, and reveals where the future of AI will be built.
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