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?