Africa Must Help Lead the AI Revolution, Not Just Consume It, Says Tanzania’s UK Envoy

Africa must move beyond being merely a consumer of artificial intelligence and instead become an active global force in creating, shaping and governing the technology, Tanzania’s High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Ambassador Mbelwa Kairuki, has argued. Delivering the keynote address at Hack the Law 2026, hosted by the King’s Entrepreneurship Lab at the University of Cambridge, Kairuki told more than 200 participants representing over 60 institutions from 24 countries that the AI revolution