Inconsistent responses from leading AI chatbots on politically sensitive topics risk eroding public trust and complicating Africa’s emerging AI governance landscape, according to African technology policy specialists. “Political content about Cameroon’s Anglophone crisis, Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict or Nigeria’s #EndSARS protests exists in far smaller volumes online than comparable Western events,” Mpara said. His prescription is structural rather than restrictive: improve African data representation, support more local languages, and increase transparency around how systems reach decisions. South Africa has no published national AI policy and will not have one before 2027 following the withdrawal of its draft over fabricated citations. The work of improving African data representation is already under way through initiatives including ATLAS Umoja AI and the growing set of locally-built language models.