Kurt A Ackermann

Every meal begins with water. It is such an obvious truth that we rarely stop to think about it. Before food reaches our tables, before it fills supermarket shelves or market stalls, before it is harvested, transported or cooked, it depends on rivers, wetlands, aquifers, healthy catchments and the rain that sustains them. Every meal begins long before the kitchen. It begins with water. Yet we seldom think about food and water together.

What if Africa’s role in shaping AI was not marginalised by entrenched global power structures, but recognised and elevated? Across the continent, our educators and farmers, data scientists and policymakers already have the knowledge, skills, and motivation to co-create AI solutions rooted in African realities.