Empowering the People Who Will Steer Africa's AI Future
Africa is navigating one of the greatest transformations in its history — and only a handful of organisations and people are working to contain the risks that come with it in Africa. We identify the talent and shape their trajectory toward being part of that work.
A Youth Led Movement
Africa is navigating one of the greatest technological transformations in its history. Transformative AI (TAI) — the kind of AI capable of cascading, irreversible effects on how people live, work, and govern themselves — is arriving faster than most institutions can respond. And in Africa, only a handful of organisations and people are seriously working to contain the risks that come with this transition.
We are a youth-led non-profit and founding member of the Global AI Youth Network (GAIN). Our focus is identifying African talent with the disposition to engage this problem seriously — and shaping their trajectory so they can move into the rooms, roles, and research pipelines where the future of AI is actually being steered.
Education, Positioning & Civic Engagement
AI Safety Action Week
Spend the last week of every month exploring a specific theme in AI Safety — what it is, what it can do, and what is at stake for people. And complete quests that build your profile for future opportunities.
AI Safety Essentials Fellowship
A structured fellowship for students and early-career professionals to build a grounded understanding of AI Safety and identify strategic career pathways in shaping its future.
Campus Organizing Circles
Student-led circles that build grassroots youth communities on campuses across Africa — curious about how they can build a footprint in AI Safety and related fields that intersects with TAI.
Interactive Tools & Initiatives We Have Built
The People Building This Movement
Joseph is the Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Lead for the Global AI Youth Network, where he drives initiatives in AI ethics and safety across the continent. He is also the founder of The Accelerators Program, which guides peers across Africa toward fellowships, gigs, and portfolios that unlock global opportunities. A scholar at Hacettepe University studying Public Administration, he focuses on capacity-building, regional policy strategy, and youth mobilization.
Meriem works across agent-based modeling, human-AI interaction, and product innovation, studying how socio-technical systems co-evolve and how governance dynamics can align collective agency at scale. She is Founder and Chief Scientist at the Tunisian Observatory on Digital Futures, Associate Policy Engineer at the Equiano Institute, and Head of Cross-Regional Strategy at GAIN MENA with doctoral research in engineering and computational social sciences.
Adjoa Sarpong
Director of Policy & Operations
Adjoa is a Biosecurity Course Facilitator at Bluedot Impact and the Founder of Suture — a USA Slack-based pre-med community where she helps pre-meds learn about impactful pathways in animal welfare and biosecurity. With a passion for women's health and medical research, she is especially interested in how we can contain pandemics in underserved regions. Her vision is to advance women's healthcare through innovative research in molecular diagnostics, digital pathology, and translational medicine. At Encode SSA, Adjoa brings a fresh perspective as a young researcher committed to using her biosecurity expertise and operations work to drive better health outcomes for our initiatives, manage our community, and support our key processes. She currently serves as Regional Policy and Operations Lead.
Guiding Africa's AI Safety Movement
Kayode Adekoya
Advisor
Kayode is an economist, entrepreneur, and AI Safety advocate with a strong background in research, finance, and management across both public and private sectors. An active member of the Effective Altruism community, he has facilitated programs with EA Nigeria, the Equiano Institute, AI Safety Sweden and Career Planning - EA Germany, while contributing to research initiatives at the Wheeler Institute (London Business School) and the Forecasting Research Institute. He is the founder of The AI Guardian, an advocacy platform advancing AI Safety awareness in Africa.
Ifeoma is an AI Governance Advisor and accomplished lawyer with over eight years of experience in corporate legal advisory, regulatory navigation, and governance risk management. Her technical background in data annotation gives her practical insight into data integrity, training flaws, and bias in AI systems. She bridges law and technology by translating complex AI concepts into actionable legal strategy, helping ensure AI systems are designed with ethical safeguards and strong compliance foundations.
Joyce is a global advocacy and policy professional working at the intersection of AI governance, human rights, and Global South inclusion. She engages multilateral institutions and UN processes to advance inclusive global AI policy. As part of GAIN's International Task Force, she supports research, stakeholder mapping, and strategy on AI safety and accountable governance. She also serves as Global Advocacy Officer at Sightsavers and is an AI Safety Fellow with Georgia Tech.