AI Salon: Education—Preparing Africa’s Children for an AI Future [Lagos]

​Africa’s children are growing up in a world shaped by algorithms, automation, and AI-powered tools, but many are learning within systems designed for a different era.

​In this salon, we will ask, how do we prepare Africa’s next generation to thrive in an AI-driven future without losing the wisdom, values, and cultural grounding of our past?

​In a continent where the median age is under 20, the stakes are high. Classrooms are filling with digital-native children experimenting with AI for creativity and learning, while teachers, parents, and policymakers struggle to catch up. Meanwhile, much of Africa’s indigenous knowledge and languages remain absent from the datasets shaping global AI systems.

​This AI Salon will explore what it means to educate for both innovation and inheritance, building pathways that equip young Africans not just to consume technology, but to create, critique, and reimagine it.

​Together, we’ll explore:

• ​Future-ready learning — what skills, mindsets, and tools African children need to lead in an AI-driven world.

• ​Local knowledge, global tech — integrating African languages, stories, and cultural frameworks into education and AI design.

• ​Intergenerational collaboration — bridging the wisdom of elders, the energy of youth, and the pragmatism of policymakers and technologists.

• ​Equity and access — ensuring rural and underserved communities aren’t left behind in the AI revolution.

• ​Guardrails for the future — how to protect children from the risks of bias, misinformation, and cultural erasure in digital spaces.

​As with every AI Salon, this gathering will be intimate, interactive, and deeply conversational. We invite educators, technologists, parents, students, policymakers, and curious minds to join us in shaping the future — one that is deeply African and boldly global.

​Space is limited. Your registration responses help us curate a room as diverse and dynamic as the future we’re building.