AI Literacy in Nigerian Schools Is A Real

80% of Nigerian adults use AI and most of them are doing it wrong.

AI literacy in Nigeria, especially in schools, is a real gap.

I first noticed it in uni watching people submit assignments straight from ChatGPT. There was no check on hallucinations, no check on whether the sources were real. It was just paste and submit.

Then while researching for a NITDA essay, I found that over 80% of Nigerian adults already use AI chatbots. We are one of the highest-adoption countries in the world.

So we are not necessarily behind on access. What we are behind on is understanding.

We use the tool every day without knowing who built it, what biases are in it or how to use it without outsourcing our thinking entirely. That is the gap.

AI literacy means understanding where AI comes from, how to use it ethically and how to build solutions with it for your own context. That is different from knowing how to prompt ChatGPT.

I study Psychology alongside this work and that combination matters because curriculum design is about how people learn, not just what they should learn.

At HammetLabs, I lead the product as CPO and both backgrounds have to show up in what we build, or it does not work.