From the bustling streets of Nairobi to meeting halls packed with aspiring technologists, Rose Delilah Gesicho’s devotion to technology has been fueled not just by curiosity, but by an unwavering driv...
Before sunrise in Nairobi, while most of the city was still asleep, a young Philomena Mbura would already be awake, her mind alive with questions. In a world where girls were often nudged toward safe,...
South Africa – 27 June, 2025 – Long before she had a name for it, Jessica Randall was already doing the work of a data scientist. She was breaking apart complex problems, reading the world...
The year was 2016, and Eric Jagwara was in search of relevant short tech courses that could help him sharpen his tech skills. That was when he stumbled on data science, but he couldn’t afford the cour...
Cameroonian data scientist and Zindi Ambassador, Leonce Pidy, grew up in the quiet town of Dibombari in Cameroon’s Littoral Region. The eldest of five children, she found herself thrust into a leaders...
Africa’s first multilingual small language model (SLM), InkubaLM, has achieved a major breakthrough—slashing its size by 75% while improving performance. The milestone, driven by a wave of African-led...
AI systems must be designed with transparency, industry-specific knowledge, and strong human oversight. In sectors like healthcare and finance, where the stakes are high, “human-in-the-loop” systems e...
