As US and Chinese superpowers weaponise artificial intelligence for global hegemony, African nations face a critical governance deficit. Without preemptive regulatory frameworks and rigorous contract scrutiny,...
Zimbabwe’s shift to biometric e-passports masks a critical vulnerability: digital sovereignty. With foreign firms building the state's digital identity infrastructure, convenience risks becoming a new form...
Algorithms are now the unseen architects of African elections. As foreign platforms engineer civic realities through opaque feeds, the true democratic threat isn't just misinformation—it is...
Zambia’s 2026 election delivered Hakainde Hichilema a decisive victory, but exposed troubling weaknesses in electoral transparency and institutional trust. Dr Blessing Vava argues that the deeper...
Zambia’s election reveals a new democratic battleground: the smartphone. From fake results and premature victory claims to algorithm-driven misinformation and AI-generated deception, political power is increasingly...
