Exec × AI
EMEA Edition

Essay · dual byline

By Khaled Shivji·Founder & CEO

By Elke Wimbert·Regional Director, Africa

Lagos & Nairobi·

AI for African enterprises, written from Lagos and Nairobi

An open letter to African boards on the practical AI agenda for 2026 and 2027, co-written by the desk and Elke Wimbert.

You will read which AI cases pay back in a Naira and a Shilling, and which do not. Foreign-currency-denominated AI investments are sized against export revenue, not domestic.

The letter is written for boards that are answerable to a parent group in Europe or the US and to a regulator in country.

Where the African case is stronger than the European one (mobile-first banking, pharma supply-chain), we say so. Where it is weaker, we say so.

We will publish the African letter quarterly, with a list of the cases that worked and the cases that did not.