When most peo­ple hear the term ‘ar­ti­fi­cial in­tel­li­gence’ (AI), they pic­ture self-dri­ving cars, voice as­sis­tants like Siri and Alexa, or chat­bots that gen­er­ate text on de­mand. These ...
Maria­ma Bâ was born in 1929 in Dakar, Sene­gal, then part of French West Africa. She came from a promi­nent Lebu fam­i­ly: her fa­ther, Amadou Bâ, was a civ­il ser­vant who be­came one of ...