Africa Will Not Be Digitized Into Dignity
The next development battle will be fought over power, data and consent. Johannesburg, April 2026 Africa is being pulled into a new geopolitical contradiction. At…
Zanele Dlamini
South African senior correspondent at Phoenix24, covering African affairs, rights, and digital justice.
Gender, Power and Technological Sovereignty: African Women and the Global Governance of Data
Johannesburg, September 2025. In a continent where narratives are too often framed from the Global North, African women are asserting themselves at the forefront of…
When Code Discriminates: Artificial Intelligence and Racial Bias in Africa
By Zanele Dlamini, Senior International Correspondent at Phoenix24 Johannesburg, July 2025 —In a township outside Nairobi, a facial recognition system installed to “prevent crime” consistently misidentifies…
Lithium and Cobalt Diplomacy: Africa Caught Between a Green Transition and a New Energetic Neocolonialism
In a small village in Katanga, eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, men and women dig with their bare hands in search of cobalt. They…
The People’s Diplomacy: How African Women Are Redefining Global Power from the Ground Up
In Johannesburg’s newsrooms, I was taught that geopolitics is decided in marble-carpeted halls. Yet this week, I was reminded that the true map of power…