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Sunday Essay — The Supervisor Who Missed the Branch Era
Three African central banks are opening AI supervision regimes, each with a different first sentence. Pretoria waits on the Financial Stability Board — Abuja has written AI into its anti-money-laundering code — Nairobi has published nothing while mobile lending runs at 1.5 billion shillings a day. The common gap sits outside all three perimeters.
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Nelson Mandela Bay Audits The Curriculum
Africa is deploying manufacturing AI faster than it is training the people who will keep it running — a gap auditable from Port Elizabeth's automotive cluster to Nigeria's 3MTT programme. An audit of 55 Nelson Mandela Bay manufacturers found 80.4 per cent lacking digital foundations for technology-enabled roles. Meanwhile, continent-wide AI curricula offer no manufacturing, OT-security or plant-floor track. The industrial-AI workforce does not yet exist.
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Reading a Chest X-ray in Turkana: Where the AI Lives
The WHO-approved chest X-ray AI models running on tablets in Turkana are working. What is not yet settled is where the stack underneath them actually lives: training pipelines, reference datasets, and GPU clusters that remain, for now, in foreign clouds. The sovereignty question in African clinical AI gets decided in procurement documents, on the clock that replaces the current generation of X-ray machines.
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