Public-facing & community work

The Continent

Bearing Witness to the AI Literary Witch Hunt Disproportionately Targeting African Writers

ResearchRound

LUNE Fellowship

For humanities and social sciences students engaging how AI can be developed, implemented, and critiqued through distinctly African intellectual frameworks.

PoliticsForHer Africa

AI, Deepfakes and Synthetic Violence

The Republic

Reimagining Feminist Digital Worlds with Ann Daramola

The Republic

An African Feminist Manifesto

Written by Ololade Faniyi. Feb 27, 2024.

Women’s Studies in Communication

A Killjoy Witness: African Content Moderators and AI’s Relationalities of Extraction

Conversation and Commentary. 2026, Vol. 49, No. 1, 189–192.

EthicsLab Webinar

From Theory to Practice, Practice to Theory: African Feminist Reimaginings of AI and Data Governance

13 November 2025, 15:00 to 16:00 SAST. Irene Mwendwa, Kenyan lawyer and tech policy advocate, and Ololade Faniyi, African feminist scholar.

Liberation Alliance Africa

We Speak of New Things

Session theme: Digital Colonialism and Afro-Feminist Futures. Wednesday, 27th November 2024. Ololade Faniyi, Moderator. Dr. Wunpini Mohammed and Irene Mwendwa, Speakers.

Able Idealisms

Liberation + AI Think Tank

Corporate AI is built by exploited laborers.

MozFest Kenya

African Feminism in Big Social Data

Through the lens of the #womensmarchZambia movement, this session explored the repercussions of untruths and biased narratives, underscoring the need for a feminist reimagination of AI.

Long House

A Long Talk: Ukamaka Olisakwe and Ololade Faniyi

Long Talk: Conversations across intimate diasporas.

African Feminist Digital Encounters: Freedom Dreaming in the Digital Age