‘Ghana is the future of Africa’: Why Google built an AI lab in Accra

Editor’s Note: Victor Asemota is a retired Edo farmer who stumbled into tech. Victor Asemota, African tech pioneer Courtesy of Victor Asemota Google has also now declared itself an “Artificial Intelligence first,” company and that statement is potentially going to change everything we know fundamentally. Someone in the audience asked; “Why is Africa dark?” Someone else repeated a similar question at another presentation during Google’s annual developer event in San Francisco in 2013. The question also came up – “What happened to Africa?” Google didn’t seem to have any activity in Africa from both maps, but the illustrations were wrong. Building African talent is one of Ghana’s strongest points, and its central location also makes it a great business hub for those who want to expand to Francophone Africa and Africa’s largest market - Nigeria.