💡 "Must African communities keep adapting to technologies built elsewhere, or can we build systems that understand the contexts they operate in?"
@KateKallot , Founder & CEO of Amini, on Sovereign Intelligence in practice at #DLI2026: Africa's AI future needs its own compute,
Strengthening African Machine Learning. 🌍 #Masakhane #SautiYetu #Masirouna #Yɛbɛtumi #XamXamlé #Urunana
- "Many low-resource African languages are still not prioritised in how these technologies are built." 🌍 David Adelani @davlanade from @Mila_Quebec took #DLI2026 through lessons from the trenches: AfroXLMR, AfriTeVa V2, and AfriqueLLM, a large language model spanning 20 African
- "Africa is not behind when it comes to AI." 🌍 Dr'Bosun Tijani @bosuntijani, Nigeria's Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, opened #DLI2026 in Lagos with a powerful keynote and a charge to the community. A thread on what he said. 🧵🇳🇬 #DLI2026 #indaba2026
- This is the moment. 🏆 On stage at #DLI2026, we celebrated our Anta Diop and Maathai Impact Award winners as they received their recognition before the community. Prof Omneya Atallah (@omneyaattallah). Dr Dr Hellina Hailu Nigatu (@HellinaNigatu). Abdel-aziz Harane Abounounou

