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Uncited: The Quiet Theft of African Knowing Part 3

We are often told we are not present in AI.

That the reason artificial intelligence systems replicate harm is because people like us were left out of the room. That data on our lives is scarce. That algorithms are biased because they weren’t built for us, or by us.

But that is not the full story.

Uncited: The Quiet Theft of African Knowing Part 2

Sometimes, when I type into ChatGPT, it answers like it knows me.

Not personally. Not by name. But something in the tone, in the pacing, the warmth, the rhythm feels familiar. It’s calm. It’s clear. It leans in like it’s listening. And sometimes, if I pause long enough, I hear something that sounds like us.

Uncited: The Quiet Theft of African Knowing

I was born and raised in London. Educated in its systems, shaped by its language, and politicised by its silences. But my way of knowing was never just British. It was African before I had the words for it.