“As soon as one telco or bank offers the opportunity for Africans to engage in their preferred languages, the public will demand that language choice becomes service-agnostic.”
That comment by Pelonomi Moiloa, CEO of pan-African artificial intelligence research lab Lelapa AI, is not a prediction. It is a warning. And it captures one of the most overlooked, yet pivotal, technology shifts already reshaping Africa’s digital future: language is becoming a new infrastructure...
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