Research Domain

Artificial Intelligence

Investigating how AI is being integrated into African industry contexts — what adoption patterns emerge, where localisation creates unique solutions, and what the evidence says about impact at scale.

Coverage

Research Focus Areas

This domain specifically examines AI integration within African solution contexts — not global AI trends, but how they land, adapt, and create new patterns locally.

Fintech & Payments
Credit scoring, fraud detection, conversational banking
Agriculture & Food Systems
Crop monitoring, yield prediction, supply chain AI
Energy & Grid Management
Predictive maintenance, demand forecasting, smart grids
Healthcare Diagnostics
AI-assisted diagnosis in low-resource settings
Urban & Infrastructure
Smart city applications, traffic, urban planning
EdTech & Skilling
Adaptive learning, language models in local languages
Governance & Public Services
e-Government AI, document processing, citizen services
AI Regulation & Policy
Regulatory sandboxes, data governance, ethics

Papers

AI Research Publications

AI
Large Language Models and African Languages: The Localisation Gap

An examination of the gap between LLM capability and African language coverage — Swahili, Amharic, Kinyarwanda, Hausa — and what it means for AI deployment across the continent.