- Source
- Eastern African Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
- Published
- 25 Apr 2026
- Authors
- A. Kirui, Brian Bichanga Nyandieka
Excerpt from source
The proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the creative industries, especially in the context of Indigenous African music, is a deep-rooted political action that builds upon the historical dynamics of power of digital extraction and algorithmic colonialism. While existing scholarship predominantly critiques AI through Western intellectual property paradigms, it largely overlooks the training dataset as a primary site of epistemic violence. Based on a decolonial theoretical framework, this paper fills this gap by arguing that the AI training datasets are political artefacts that fix neo-colonial forms of oppression by freezing dynamic, living cultures to be consumed exogenously.…
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