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What Are Young Africans Doing With AI?

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9/24/20261 min read

๐—œ๐˜โ€™๐˜€ ๐—ฎ ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ FORGE4AFRICA ๐˜๐—ผ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ฒ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—š๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ธ ๐—•๐—ผ๐˜ ๐— ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฝ ๐—ง๐—ผ๐—ด๐—ผ ๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ ๐—ฝ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ป๐—ฒ๐—ฟ.

We talked about AI, and tools like Grok Bot are showing us something very important: the way we learn, work, build and solve problems is changing very quickly.

But for us at FORGE4AFRICA, the question is not only โ€œWhat can AI do?โ€

The bigger question is:

โ€œ๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐  ๐€๐Ÿ๐ซ๐ข๐œ๐š๐ง๐ฌ ๐๐จ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐€๐ˆ?โ€
โ€œ๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐  ๐˜๐Ž๐” ๐๐จ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐†๐‘๐Ž๐Š ๐๐Ž๐“?โ€.

F4A is an African-focused organization creating opportunities for young people to develop digital skills, leadership skills, entrepreneurial thinking and the ability to turn ideas into real solutions.

We work across areas such as technology, entrepreneurship, leadership, innovation, climate action and policy dialogue.

And we believe something very strongly:
Africa does not only need young people who can use technology. We need young people who can use technology to build.

๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ ๐›๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ.โ€จ๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ.โ€จ๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ ๐œ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ.โ€จ๐๐ฎ๐ข๐ฅ๐ ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ž๐ฌ ๐Ÿ๐จ๐ซ ๐จ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ซ๐ฌ

That is why events like this are important to us.

When you learn a new technology, don't stop at knowing how to use it. Ask yourself:

โ€œ๐–๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐จ๐›๐ฅ๐ž๐ฆ ๐š๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ง๐ ๐ฆ๐ž ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐ˆ ๐ฌ๐จ๐ฅ๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ข๐ฌ?โ€โ€จ

๐™ˆ๐™–๐™ฎ๐™—๐™š ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช ๐™–๐™ง๐™š ๐™– ๐™™๐™š๐™ซ๐™š๐™ก๐™ค๐™ฅ๐™š๐™ง. ๐™ˆ๐™–๐™ฎ๐™—๐™š ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช ๐™–๐™ง๐™š ๐™–๐™ฃ ๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ฉ๐™ง๐™š๐™ฅ๐™ง๐™š๐™ฃ๐™š๐™ช๐™ง. ๐™ˆ๐™–๐™ฎ๐™—๐™š ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช'๐™ง๐™š ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ž๐™ก๐™ก ๐™– ๐™จ๐™ฉ๐™ช๐™™๐™š๐™ฃ๐™ฉ. ๐™’๐™๐™š๐™ง๐™š๐™ซ๐™š๐™ง ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช ๐™–๐™ง๐™š, ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช ๐™๐™–๐™ซ๐™š ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™ค๐™ฅ๐™ฅ๐™ค๐™ง๐™ฉ๐™ช๐™ฃ๐™ž๐™ฉ๐™ฎ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™—๐™š๐™˜๐™ค๐™ข๐™š ๐™– ๐™—๐™ช๐™ž๐™ก๐™™๐™š๐™ง.

๐˜ผ๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™ž๐™จ ๐™ฉ๐™๐™š ๐™ ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ค๐™› ๐˜ผ๐™›๐™ง๐™ž๐™˜๐™– ๐™ฌ๐™š ๐™ฌ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™ฉ ๐™ฉ๐™ค ๐™๐™š๐™ก๐™ฅ ๐™˜๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™ฉ๐™š ๐™–๐™ฉ ๐™๐™ค๐™ง๐™œ๐™š4๐˜ผ๐™›๐™ง๐™ž๐™˜๐™–, ๐™–๐™ฃ ๐˜ผ๐™›๐™ง๐™ž๐™˜๐™– ๐™ฌ๐™๐™š๐™ง๐™š ๐™ฎ๐™ค๐™ช๐™ฃ๐™œ ๐™ฅ๐™š๐™ค๐™ฅ๐™ก๐™š ๐™–๐™ง๐™š ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ฉ ๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™ก๐™ฎ ๐™˜๐™ค๐™ฃ๐™จ๐™ช๐™ข๐™š๐™ง๐™จ ๐™ค๐™› ๐™ฉ๐™š๐™˜๐™๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ก๐™ค๐™œ๐™ฎ, ๐™—๐™ช๐™ฉ ๐™˜๐™ง๐™š๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ค๐™ง๐™จ, ๐™ž๐™ฃ๐™ฃ๐™ค๐™ซ๐™–๐™ฉ๐™ค๐™ง๐™จ ๐™–๐™ฃ๐™™ ๐™ก๐™š๐™–๐™™๐™š๐™ง๐™จ.