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An African Manual For Debugging Empire

V9 N3An African Manual For Debugging EmpireEditor's Foreword • Wale Lawal

An African Manual for Debugging Empire confronts the erasure of Africans in global tech debates and highlights the ways the continent is actively shaping, contesting and redefining the futures of AI.

An African Manual for Debugging Empire

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Wale LawalAugust 24, 2025

Our latest issue, An African Manual for Debugging Empire , confronts the erasure of Africans in global tech debates and highlights the ways the continent is actively shaping, contesting and redefining the futures of AI.

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