13,625MW installed. About 4,286MW available. Nigeria's AI strategy needs a scoreboard that counts compute, energy and talent, not just ambition. My take in Leadership Newspapers.

Three companies control more than 60% of global cloud spend. Here's why that concentration should worry every African AI founder renting compute, and every investor backing them.

We risk becoming permanently dependent, paying rent on intelligence instead of owning a share of it." Oluwaseyi Ayodeji on the six pillars of AI sovereignty, power, compute, chips, data, governance and talent, and why Africa can't afford to stay a spectator.

Africa generates the AI queries. Africa pays the bandwidth bills. But the servers doing the thinking sit in Amsterdam, Virginia, and Singapore. The Stack Sovereignty Test turns to its second pillar - Compute - and asks the question that determines everything else: who owns the machines that think for you?

Africa is producing more AI-capable graduates than ever. And losing more of that capacity than it can afford. The Stack Sovereignty Test reveals why talent isn't just one of five pillars - it's the variable that determines whether all the others can be built. The window is open. It will not stay that way.