It’s Saturday afternoon on Lamu Island in Kenya, and I’ve just finished reading Karyn Maughan’s book I Will Not Be Silenced. I’m on the island to host a four-day symposium with the theme “AI and the weaponisation of hate speech”.

This is peculiarly apposite, as you will realise if you know the story of how Jacob Zuma and his allies have tried to destroy Maughan’s life by attacking her mercilessly on social media, and in the courts...

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