About this report
This report maps AI across all five regions of Africa, from events and adoption to research, infrastructure, compute, real-world deployments, funding and policy. Its central finding: Africans are ready for AI, but the grid is not.
Use is high where people are online. 88% of online Nigerians and 72% of online South Africans used an AI tool in 2025, against a 66% average across 21 countries. Yet only 36% of Africans use the internet.
Infrastructure is the bottleneck. Africa runs about 360MW of live data-centre capacity, roughly 0.6% of the world’s, for 18% of its people. One planned AI campus in Morocco (500MW) would exceed all of it.
Compute is mostly promised. Cassava’s NVIDIA GPUs in South Africa are live; Morocco’s Nexus AI Factory, Egypt’s AI factory and Microsoft–G42 in Kenya are announced, commissioning or stalled.
African-language AI is now a real stack, led by Sunflower (67 languages), WAXAL (11,000+ hours of speech), N-ATLAS, InkubaLM and Khaya.
The strongest impact evidence is in health and education: an AI copilot cut diagnostic errors by 16% across 39,849 visits in Kenya.
Rules lag strategy. Fewer than half of African countries have an AI strategy; Kenya’s AI Bill 2026 is the most advanced law.
The report closes with recommendations for builders, investors and policymakers.
This report covers January 2025 – October 2026.
Report code TBI-2026-Q4.