The Procurement Gap 24 April, 2026 | Martin Wagah Thirty per cent. That was the share of substantive Kenyan equity that any company providing ICT services in Kenya was required to maintain. This was the only regulatory instrument that structurally ensured Kenyan ownership in the technology sector. On 22 August 2023, the Cabinet Secretary for […]
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Haki Legal: Building Legal AI in Kenya 20 March, 2026 | Martin Wagah In May 2025, a court submission in Kenya was found to contain legal citations that did not exist. Cases fabricated whole cloth. Statutes that had never been enacted. Arguments dressed in the language of law but anchored to nothing. The Judiciary’s Committee
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Knowledge Graphs, Language Models, and Knowledge Representation 9 March, 2026 | Carringtone Kinyanjui Schema Light, Ontology Free Knowledge Graphs TL;DR Turning long, messy legal text into usable structured knowledge is still brittle and ontology-heavy classic name entity recognition and relation extraction often misses what actually matters in a case and doesn’t scale cleanly across domains
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The Blueprint: Doing AI Right in Africa 21 February, 2026 | Martin Wagah My first essay in this series argued that Africa’s position in the AI revolution is one that offers strategic choice. I posed that Africa’s lateness allows it to choose better, and that its diversity and polycentric structure can be deployed as leverage.
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Rainmakers and Neural Networks 23 January, 2026 | Carringtone Kinyanjui How do we talk to complexity? How do we make complexity talk? How do we force ourselves to hear? How do we make sure we’re not only listening to things we want to hear? How do we save ourselves? I’m so sorry. This is an
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The Polycentre: AI in Africa 24th January 2025 | Martin G. Wagah Conventional narratives position Africa as perpetually behind, always scrambling to catch up while real progress happens elsewhere. This framing is wrong. Africa’s position outside conventional currents of success need not always be a disadvantage. Sometimes, it is a strategic asset to be deployed.
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