--- title: Africa’s Next Tech Generation Is Already Building description: A growing generation of young Africans across Morocco, Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda, Ghana, South Africa and elsewhere is building technology rather than just... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/africa-s-next-tech-generation-is-already-building-kn2f2wqoz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Africa’s Next Tech Generation Is Already Building | daily.dev og:description: A growing generation of young Africans across Morocco, Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda, Ghana, South Africa and elsewhere is building technology rather than just... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/africa-s-next-tech-generation-is-already-building-kn2f2wqoz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/KN2F2WqOZ.png og:image:alt: Africa’s Next Tech Generation Is Already Building og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Africa’s Next Tech Generation Is Already Building **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 7 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A growing generation of young Africans across Morocco, Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda, Ghana, South Africa and elsewhere is building technology rather than just consuming it, enabled by cheap access to programming, open-source tools, cloud computing and AI. The piece highlights examples like 14-year-old Anir Laslami in Casablanca, who is building a small AI system called Kairo from scratch using Python and PyTorch, alongside earlier young African innovators like Kiara Nirghin and Arthur Zang. It argues Africa's demographic youth, collapsing barriers to experimentation, and unsolved local problems in agriculture, fintech, healthcare, education and language technology position the continent to produce its own tech giants rather than import them. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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