They captured the Shilluk warrior for a museum. I recreated him for our heritage.
They captured him for a museum.
I recreated him for our heritage.
I searched for the Shilluk warrior in 19th century archival photography.
Black and Whites. Sepias. Artist Illustrations.
What I found was blue or hazel eyes behind the lens. I used AI as a tool for reclaiming African visual identity from colonial narratives.
#1. If AI can’t see you, do you exist?
“If AI can’t see you, do you exist?”
It sounds like a riddle, but for millions of people across Africa and the Global Majority, it’s an everyday reality. Entire communities are absent from the data that trains the world’s most powerful language models.
Their dialects aren't recognised.
Their accents are misunderstood.
Their cultures go unreferenced.
Are the tools we call “intelligent” are built for all of humanity — or just a narrow slice of it?