Kenya
Kenya's draft AI policy promises a pay benchmark for data work indexed to rates abroad
A row in the implementation matrix commits to a fair-pay reference framework for data annotation and content moderation, calibrated to international rates. The document gives no rate and does not say whose. What is scheduled first is a publication, and publishing it needs nobody else's signature.
African developers chose Chinese models before any government signed anything
Ten African countries signed an AI pact with China in Shanghai in July. The adoption it looks like it caused had already happened, in the hands of developers who could download the weights while the American onboarding queue was still running.