Despite comprising 50 percent of the population, women hold just 4.5 percent of seats in the National Assembly. Nigeria consistently ranks near the bottom globally and in Africa on women’s parliamentary representation.
Passing the anti-LGBTQ+ bill days after receiving global acclaim for human rights advocacy would expose Ghana’s rank hypocrisy, potentially undermining the very reparations dialogue the government claims to prioritize.
The data-labelling industry relies heavily on workers in Kenya and Nigeria to annotate what AI systems learn. Those same workers rarely see their languages reflected in the systems they help train.