Chair & Co-Founder
Amara Okonkwo
Twenty years in telecoms infrastructure across West Africa.
Applied AI, built in Africa
Company
AllowAIAfrica
0.1About
Founded in 2019 to close the distance between African data and African decisions.
We are an independent, self-funded engineering company working across 18 markets. Our teams sit inside banks, telcos, ministries and agritech operators — building models on the data they already hold, in the languages their customers actually speak.
- Independent
- Self-funded since day one
- Local
- Teams in 6 African cities
- Applied
- Shipped, not published
Our mission
Make world-class artificial intelligence ordinary infrastructure on this continent — owned locally, governed locally, and useful on day one.
Company
About our companyand leadership team
Founded in 2019. Self-funded. Working with Fortune Global 500 operators and national institutions across 18 African markets — with every model trained, hosted and governed in-region.
CEO & Co-Founder
Dr. Thabo Mensah
Machine learning researcher; previously led applied ML at a pan-African bank.
Partners
We build enterprise AIfor African institutions
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Allow AI Africa rebuilt our fraud stack on data we already held. False positives fell by a third in the first quarter, and every model runs inside our own region — which is what finally got it past our regulator.
- Sahara Bank
- Kilimanjaro Telecom
- Zambezi Energy
- Atlas Logistics
- Baobab Health
- Nile Agritech
Ready to put AI to workin your market?
- Phone
- +254 20 000 0000
- hello@allowai.africa
- Offices
- Nairobi, KenyaLagos, NigeriaAccra, Ghana
AllowAIAfrica
Applied AI, built in Africa, for the next billion people.
Offices
- Nairobi, Kenya
- Lagos, Nigeria
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