In recent years, much of the literature on Artificial Intelligence (AI) ethics has focused mainly on Western ethical perspectives, making the discourse largely one-sided. This edited volume not only interrogates AI ethics, but also emphasizes the importance of African moral values in formulating novel principles for developing ethically permissible AI. This principle-oriented approach is complemented by a practical approach that considers the deployment, implementation, and governance dimensions as central to realizing ethically permissible AI and its application in Africa.

Amara Esther Chimakonam is a postdoc fellow at the Centre for African Phenomenology, University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa. She is also the editor of the journal Ezumezu: African Perspectives on Logic, Transhumanism and AI Ethics.