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This article discusses the potential of AI in Africa, focusing on an innovation by Theofrida Maginga, a Tanzanian lecturer at Sokoine University of Agriculture. Maginga has developed a Swahili powered Chat Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (ChatGPT) chatbot that can help local communities and rural farmers in early detection of diseases on maize farms. AI is a broad field that encompasses machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing and computer vision, among other subfields, with the goal of enabling machines to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence.