Last week, I visited the student hostel at Brock University in Ontario, Canada. Brock University is a public university. This should be the minimum standard for university hostels in Nigeria.

How do we build AI that is fair, trustworthy, and truly made for Africa? At 15:00, we tackle exactly that. Grab your laptops and join us for Responsible and Sovereign AI: Fair, Trustworthy, and Context-Aware Machine Learning for Africa. As machine learning moves into healthcare, finance, and public services, the stakes of getting it wrong are real. This session shows you how to design systems that are accountable, transparent, and grounded in African realities. What to expect: Fairness in practice: Learn how bias creeps into models and datasets, and the concrete techniques for detecting and reducing it. Trustworthy ML: Explore interpretability, accountability, and the design choices that make a model something people can rely on. Context-aware and sovereign AI: See why AI built for Africa must reflect local data, languages, and values, and how to put that principle into practice. When: 15:00 to 17:30 (starting soon!) Where: Deep Learning Indaba, Lagos One of three parallel tutorials in this slot. Your instructor: @BlessingManB , Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Brock University, Canada Head to the tutorial room now. See you there! 🌍⚖️ #DLI2026 #indaba2026 #ÌmọWa #sovereignintelligence