I built a Lagos cooking game from scratch and it is live. 🇳🇬 Bùkà Hustle is a 3D business sim where you start with a roadside bùkà, cook jollof, serve hungry customers, buy water, wash the pot, hire workers and grow into a full restaurant. Watch out for NEPA taking light, and keep your gas filled. You can play it on your phone, tablet or laptop. It is free, with no forced ads and no energy timers. I would love your feedback. Tell me what to add next. Link in the comments.

“We face neither East nor West; we face forward.” — Kwame Nkrumah Last year, I was invited to speak at Tech Expo Africa in Accra by my brother @sholakenny. But one of the most important moments of that trip happened outside the conference. I visited the Kwame Nkrumah Memorial Park. Standing there, reflecting on his words, his mission and his vision for a united Africa, something stayed with me. Nearly 70 years after Ghana's independence, we face a different challenge. The world is building an AI-powered economy and the question is whether Africa will help build and own the infrastructure or remain dependent on what others create. Following our launch of STORM-Ensemble 3.0 at PlotWeaver, I have received your commendations, prayers, concerns, criticisms and suggestions. I have read them and I am grateful. But I want to say something. Africa will build its own AI future. I hope @plotweaverapp earns the opportunity to be one of the companies that makes it happen. And if Africa chooses us, we will give every ounce of energy, expertise and determination we have to deliver. McKinsey estimates that generative AI could unlock up to $103 billion in additional economic value across Africa. But even that number doesn't fully capture what becomes possible when we remove language as a barrier. Imagine trade flowing across African borders, with buyers and sellers communicating in their own languages. Healthcare becoming more accessible through a simple conversation on a mobile phone. Quality education reaching children in the languages they understand best. Nobody questions the intelligence of someone who speaks Chinese or Spanish but struggles with English. Why should an African child be judged differently? Imagine what is possible when we give brilliant African minds the infrastructure to build innovations we haven't even conceived of yet. That is what excites me most. Not what we can build at @plotweaverapp, but what millions of Africans can build because this infrastructure exists. This is the message I am taking to the Commonwealth Business Forum in Antigua, to leaders from Africa, the Caribbean and beyond. We have an opportunity to make African languages commercially viable, unlock new markets, create jobs and ensure our people participate meaningfully in the economic opportunities AI will create. We must not miss this moment. To my friends, colleagues and everyone following this journey, please continue to challenge us. Question our assumptions. Criticise our work. Share your ideas. Pray for our mission. And most importantly, support us in building something that can serve all of us. We don't have all the answers. We have a great deal to prove. But we know what we are working towards and we are prepared to do the work. Nkrumah's words are as relevant today as they were decades ago. We face neither East nor West. We face forward. And forward is where Africa must go. PlotWeaver. Build Once. Speak Every Language. #PlotWeaver #ArtificialIntelligence #AfricanLanguages #PanAfricanism #CommonwealthBusinessForum

Glad to be part if this 😊

They said African languages were too fragmented, too complex and too commercially insignificant to build advanced AI for. We disagreed. So we built it. 64 languages. 166 voices. 3 billion parameters. ONE model. Today, we are unveiling STORM-Ensemble 3.0, the most capable multilingual speech synthesis model we have built at PlotWeaver. From Yorùbá, Igbo, Hausa and Nigerian Pidgin to Swahili, Amharic, Wolof, Zulu, Xhosa and dozens more, STORM-Ensemble 3.0 generates speech across 64 languages, with 166 distinct speaker voices. Every voice you hear is generated by our model, not a prerecorded sample. But the real breakthrough isn't the numbers. It's what becomes possible when this technology is in the hands of people who can build with it. -African filmmakers distributing stories across languages. -Banks and telcos serving customers in their mother tongues. -Education platforms reaching more children. -Developers building voice AI products without starting from scratch. We are not building AI for African languages simply to prove it can be done. We are building the infrastructure to make our languages commercially viable at global scale. Next week, I will be speaking at the Commonwealth Business Forum in Antigua about unlocking the Commonwealth's creative potential. This launch is a practical demonstration of that ambition. Africa must not simply consume the future of AI. We must build, own and shape the infrastructure that powers it. Watch the video. Listen to the voices. Imagine what's possible. Introducing STORM-Ensemble 3.0. PlotWeaver. Build Once. Speak Every Language. #PlotWeaver #STORMEnsemble #VoiceAI #AfricanLanguages

How cool is this 👀 Btw i modeled this.

Millions of Nigerians can talk, but the internet expects them to read and type in English. So I'm building Jagora for this: a voice-first browser. You speak Yorùbá, Hausa, Igbo, Pidgin or English, and it does the website for you. Built on Muse Spark. Demo next week.

@__shahidshaikh: Time Zone Pro for iOS, Mac and Android. Slide the time in one zone and the rest update. shahidshaikh.com/apps @dalgitch: Ghost Algorithm, a strategy game made by a solo dev, out now on Steam. store.steampowered.com/app/4… @ememzyvisuals: Bùkà Hustle, a 3D cooking sim. Start with a roadside bùkà in Lagos, cook jollof and grow into a full restaurant. bukahustle.vercel.app @_cona4: FlowSearch, top remote job sources in one iPhone and iPad app. Search, apply and save jobs for later. apps.apple.com/us/app/flowse… @midtoneux: Fitnex, a Framer template for personal trainers, coaches and training studios. framer.com/marketplace/templ… @nicklanasa: ChoreKit 1.1 for iOS. Chores kids finish, rewards they pick, photo proof you approve in a tap, plus a new Fall pack. chorekit.com @DaneBuilds: Allocio, a money tracker that gives every unit a job. Runs in the browser or from your home screen. allocio.vercel.app

I got beaten at my own game keh 😂 I have to lock in This ORM buka 🫵

If your AI can run a business but cannot understand the language of its owner, how intelligent is it really? Why should a salon owner in Lagos need to speak English to understand their customers, manage bookings or analyse revenue? At @plotweaverapp, we're changing that. After demonstrating AI-powered shopping through our Kivo marketplace in Nigerian Pidgin, I wanted to push things further. Can we make AI agents perform real business operations entirely in Yoruba? We built a demo to prove it. Three interactions. Three real business workflows. All in Yoruba. 1. I booked a haircut for Monday at 4 pm. I sent a WhatsApp voice note in Yoruba. The AI understood my request and booked the appointment. No forms. No switching languages. 2. The salon owner moved my appointment from 4 pm to noon. The owner instructed an AI agent to reschedule it. The booking was updated, and I received a WhatsApp notification confirming the change. 3. Another salon owner asked the AI to identify their top three customers by spending over the past month. In Yoruba. The agent retrieved the business data and returned the insights. That third interaction is the real breakthrough. We're moving from AI that speaks African languages to AI that actually WORKS in African languages. Booking customers. Updating records. Analysing spending. Helping business owners make better decisions. Now imagine this across millions of African businesses. Salons. Pharmacies. Restaurants. Retailers. Banks. Clinics. This is why we built @plotweaverapp . We're not building every application ourselves, we're building the voice and language infrastructure that allows developers to make their AI agents, products and workflows work in African languages. The next billion AI users won't all speak English. And they shouldn't have to. Watch the demo. If you're building AI products for Africa, this is the infrastructure layer you should be thinking about. #PlotWeaver #AgenticAI #AfricanAI

🚀 Introducing **TruthGuard** – the AI that *k nows what it knows… and what it doesn’t*! 🧠 Unlike typical benchmarks, TruthGuard measures **confidence calibration**: it tests whether AI is aware when it’s wrong. #AI #MachineLearning #TrustGuard

WazobiaVoice is out 🔥 5 Nigerian languages, one model. 13 voice personas + full voice cloning from a 5s clip. Quality: • English, Igbo, Hausa: strong • Pidgin: strong • Yoruba: still lagging, VITS fix in progress Nigeria's TTS just got real.

Not really impressed with the traction i got from this ! 🥲 I invested two weeks of my time modelling the characters,objects and the environments. Spent a lot of effort in rigging the characters and animating them. So i won't build any game for about a month And instead soend time on updating my portfolio.

Voices by @plotweaverapp

Play Bùkà Hustle here: bukahustle.vercel.app

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