person

Pelonomi Moiloa

Lelapa AI co-founder; African languages NLP

Co-founder and CEO of Lelapa AI, a South African AI lab building NLP models for African languages including isiZulu, Sesotho, and Yoruba. Vocal advocate for region-led AI infrastructure.

current Co-founder, CEO, Lelapa AI

@PelonomiMoiloa

Strategy positions

Sovereign AIendorses

Nation states must build their own AI for sovereignty

Argues African AI sovereignty, data, talent, models, deployment, is a precondition for the technology to serve Africans rather than being imposed from elsewhere.

If we want AI that works for Africans, in African languages, with African data governance, we have to build it ourselves. Lelapa is part of that.

¶ articleLelapa AI· Lelapa AI· 2023· faithful paraphrase

Closest strategy neighbours

by jaccard overlap

Other people whose strategy tags overlap with Pelonomi Moiloa's. Overlap is on tag identity, not stance; opposites can show up if they reference the same tags.

Ashwini Vaishnaw
shared 1 · J=1.00
Minister of Electronics and IT, Government of India
Cédric Villani
shared 1 · J=1.00
Fields medalist; former MP; French AI strategy
Cyril Ramaphosa
shared 1 · J=1.00
President of South Africa; AU AI strategy host
Dario Floreano
shared 1 · J=1.00
EPFL robotics; Swiss AI Initiative lead
Emmanuel Macron
shared 1 · J=1.00
President of France; hosted the 2025 Paris AI Action Summit
Gilles Babinet
shared 1 · J=1.00
French digital council co-chair

Record last updated 2026-04-25.