How Robots Are Helping Cameroon’s Women Get Into Work

Eyewitness News

With a flash of green light, a robot sputters and whizzes across the room, obeying the remote-control commands 15-year-old Xaviera Nguefo and her team send its way.

It is a scene that would not look out of place in a futuristic sci-fi fantasy, but is instead playing out in Yaounde, the dusty capital of Cameroon with its potholed streets and frequent power outages.

In a country where one in four girls do not even learn to read, Xaviera, one of about 20 young Cameroonians studying at the NextGen centre in Yaounde, is picking up the basics of artificial intelligence.

“I love doing that because the physics that they teach us (at school) is all applied here,” she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. “And it makes me a little bit smarter!”

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