African nations have been challenged to build and embrace Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions in education to address teacher shortage, enhance efficiency and promote equality.
Speaking at the Africa Premier AI Conference (APAIC2025), the Founder and CEO of MindHYVE.ai and DV8 Infosystems Bill Faruki underscored the need for the continent to own its AI future in education through sovereign intelligence systems that reflect the continent’s values, cultures, and aspirations.
Faruki highlighted the risks of importing foreign-built AI into African classrooms, citing language mismatches, curriculum distortion, and algorithmic colonialism.
Instead, he urged the continent to invest in homegrown, locally trained, and culturally aligned AI platforms.
MindHYVE.ai is a global pioneer in adaptive intelligence and Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) agents. Its mission is to empower nations to build AI systems that reflect their values, accelerate innovation, and ensure sustainable growth.
ArthurAI™, MindHYVE’s flagship educational agent was showcased and launched at the conference. It delivers personalised curricula, multilingual capabilities, and offline-ready architecture, ensuring inclusivity even where infrastructure is limited.
Faruki explained that the platform should not be confused with a learning management system or a website, but rather an agentic system that could be used by an academic institution, available in six versions, ranging from the regular school to the university offering holistic education.
“Arthur is a special Agentic AI designed for education, and it can teach anything to anyone to any level, in any language, anywhere in the world, at any time of the day,” said the CEO, adding that they focused on developing nations to help them cost-effectively attain high-quality education.
He noted that the system perfectly aligned with the country’s values, linguistic styles, references, and analogies and called for collaborations with academic institutions to embrace the platform to enhance efficiency.
Faruki said the platform would also address the biting teacher shortage in the country, as one teacher could handle a class of over 5000-10000 learners virtually.
“You don’t need to buy textbooks for 10000 pupils. That same institution can now serve a much wider audience and learn in a hybrid environment, and bridge that gap where teachers are not available,” stated the CEO.
The Secretary of ICT, E-Government, and Digital Economy in the Ministry of Information, Communications, and the Digital Economy Mary Kerema lauded the launch of the platform saying it would equalise education regardless of the school location.
“As per the demo, this Arthur AI comes to equalise education. It calibrates education to my learning styles. Some learn very fast; there are those who need to be repeated, there are those who thrive in seeing diagrams, in seeing pictures. This Agentic AGI can customise the learning, the same curriculum, but diversified learning,” she said.
The ICT Secretary affirmed that the government is keen on ensuring that legal frameworks, policies, guidelines and standards are improved at the same pace as technology evolves.
“What we are doing as a government, even as we are thinking of adopting technology, we are at the same starting point, we are thinking of the legal frameworks, the policies, the standards and regulations that will support these technologies,” she stated.
She noted that the government has launched an AI strategy to help the government in the adoption of AI in an organised and strategic manner to preserve the country’s sovereignty.
“On top of that, this year we are also doing the AI policy. We are doing all these to guide our country, our citizenry, on how to embrace AI responsibly and ethically,” the ICT Secretary said.
She added that the Office of the Data Commissioner is also drafting laws to safeguard personal data privacy for people to be comfortable in embracing emerging technologies.
By Sadik Hassan
