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By Chinenye Anuforo
Technology entrepreneur and Founder of Alpha-Geek Technologies, Oluwaseun Dania, has called for a new era of African-led artificial intelligence innovation in media, policy, and governance.
He made the call during the World Bank and Eden Venture Group’s Entertaining Change: Next-Generation Media Partnerships for Social Impact and Gender Equality forum, where he presented transformative solutions for the continent’s creative and digital future.
Speaking in the session themed, AI for Entertainment Media Content: Advancing Impact and Research, Dania laid out a roadmap for how artificial intelligence can expand creative capacity, protect intellectual property, shape inclusive AI systems, and accelerate digital economic participation across Africa.
Dania stressed that artificial intelligence is not a threat to human creativity but an enabler of scale, access, and global competitiveness for African storytellers. He noted that AI already enhances critical parts of the filmmaking pipeline, including script development, editing, visual effects, audio enhancement, audience analytics, and rights monitoring, dramatically lowering production costs while improving quality.
A central part of his presentation was the introduction of the Indie-Studio-in-a-Box, an AI-driven production model that enables small teams of 5 to 8 creatives to run a full studio pipeline from a single laptop. The model integrates AI-assisted scriptwriting, virtual pre-visualisation, smart production tools, automated post-production, multi-language AI dubbing, embedded intellectual-property protection, and rapid digital distribution. Dania described it as a structural shift capable of redefining content creation economics across Africa.
To guide responsible AI adoption, Dania also unveiled the A.I.R. Framework, a governance standard built on Attribution, Integrity, and Residuals. The framework advocates clear consent and credit for talent, built-in provenance tagging to identify AI-generated content, and smart-contract payment rails to guarantee creators earn recurring compensation whenever their work or likeness is reused.
Dania further highlighted the urgency of aligning Africa’s academic institutions with the realities of the AI-driven media landscape. He called for collaborations between universities, creative industries, governments, and Big Tech to update media, film, and computer science curricula with AI literacy. He urged investment in African-language datasets, research on algorithmic bias, and the creation of interdisciplinary labs dedicated to fairness, representation, and cultural context in AI systems. He emphasised that Africa must lead the design of tools that understand its people, languages, histories, and social frameworks.
In addition, Dania proposed the establishment of a NITDA-led Creative AI Regulatory Sandbox, co-designed with NDPC, NFVCB, NBC, NCC, CBN, industry guilds, universities, and development partners. The sandbox would allow structured experimentation with emerging AI tools in real productions, creating pathways for responsible innovation, safety standards, and sector-wide scalability.
He concluded with a call for Africa to move beyond being a consumer of AI tools to becoming a producer of AI systems shaped by African realities, ethics, and economic priorities. He emphasised that building the future of media and artificial intelligence on the continent requires coordinated investments in research, education, regulation, and creative industry infrastructure.
