If we had to scrape the web and collect all the content published about Afrika and its people and then feed that into a machine learning algorithm and train it to give feedback on the sentiment of all that content, what would it say?
📷 Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and socio-political critic. His most famous novel is also his first, Things Fall Apart. It is often considered a masterpiece, and it is one of the most widely read books in modern African literature. He is also known for the saying "If you don't like someone's story, write your own." Highlighting the importance of telling our stories as Afrikans.
We must write and tell our stories as Afrikans. We must do that across various sectors of society including in business and also with regard to innovation and technology. Lest many say we have never invented anything.
Narratives serve, partly, to motivate, to illustrate how Afrika not only has the potential but is building technology that matters to the world.
