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For decades, much of Africa's development conversation has centered on the urgent question: how do we reduce suffering? How do we feed the hungry? How do we get medicine to those who need it? How do we keep children in school? How do we help people survive?
There is an old Igbo saying: "Uwa bụ ahịa." The world is a marketplace. It is a simple phrase, but it reflects a powerful truth. People learn by doing. They grow through responsibility. And prosperity comes not only from knowledge, but from the ability to create value.
Last month, Mozisha hosted the second episode of our AI Series, a conversation focused on healthcare. We brought together Dr. Chidi Akusobi, a physician-scientist from Stanford University working on clinical AI, Dr. Maureen Etuket, co-founder of Pumzi Devices in Uganda, and Faith Emoruwa, a perioperative nurse in Lagos specialising in Da Vinci robotic
By a pragmatist who's watched too many brilliant people sleepwalk into redundancy The memo has gone out. Not the one your manager sent. The one the entire economy is quietly circulating: AI is coming for jobs — and it's not being polite about it.
In the first week of May alone, Meta announced 8,000 job cuts. Microsoft offered buyouts to nearly 9,000 workers for the first time in its 51-year history. PayPal said it would eliminate 20% of its entire workforce. Coinbase cut 14% of staff. Every announcement cited the same driver: artificial intelligence.
It used to be frustrating. Now it’s becoming a structural problem. You graduate. You apply for jobs. They ask for experience. You don’t have experience. So you don’t get the job.