Last week, when talking about what I see as the biggest danger of AI for Tanzania, I said that “we are a credulous people.” There is more to it than that. We don’t value social scientists, so we’re not used to people reminding us in the public dialogue that modern African living has psychological, cultural and social complexities that have carried over from colonialism.
We live in multiple worlds, all at once, make contradictions work. We have traditions that compete with contemporary values, religions that have decimated indigenous belief systems and replaced most of them with alternatives like “witchcraft” that are devoid of the sa-cred.
