June 16
Kenya: The Algorithm Will See You Now - Deepfake Doctors and the Commodification of Care in Kenya
A few months ago, I was scrolling through TikTok when I came across a video. In a brightly lit room with brown décor, a doctor in a checkered shirt was discussing PCOS, a… Read more »
May 23
Africa: AI and the New Machinery of African Repression
Artificial intelligence is lowering the cost of authoritarian control in Africa. The danger is not only mass surveillance, but a state that can abort reformist change before it is… Read more »
October 20, 2025
Africa: When Digital Lending Feels Like Financial Colonialism
Hustlerfund, a mobile lending application in Kenya advances a 20-year-old woman named Khamba to stock up her fruit stall in Nakura. In another seven days, it has almost doubled. In… Read more »
March 28, 2019
Chad: Chad Social Media Ban Reaches One-Year Mark
Why have Chad's internet restrictions, which started amid anti-regime protests a year ago today, endured for so long? Read more »
