A Warning to African Leaders: Do Not Sell Your Data Sets
As a Kenyan, data nationalism is something I am seriously thinking about. We are in the midst of a new type of colonialism in Africa, this time with our data and information at stake.
It’s been almost 10 years since I left CNN and my anchor role. I have spent that time relentlessly arguing, advocating, and insisting that Africa must own its stories, make new markets, and export them to the world. In our own voices, on our own terms. My partner Fashi Mindset by Chidi Afulezi and I invested a huge amount of blood, sweat, and tears in our start-up (now defunct), aK…
