Artificial Intelligence, Big Tech, and the Coming Recolonisation of Africa

This article is the first in a series exploring the question of African prosperity in the coming postdigital age. It takes the current race for supremacy in AI amongst wealthy nations as a starting point for critiquing the aims and goals of tech-enabled global domination, and what it would mean for Africa. It lays the foundation for future instalments to explore how the AI Wars, as I dub them, revitalise old debates about ...