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Leading in the AI Era: Samrah Kasozi Tells Women Leaders to Rise With the Technology, Not Behind It
At the Evidence for Women Values-Driven Leadership Development Masterclass, the African AI researcher made the case that leadership now means fluency in artificial intelligence.
On Saturday, women leaders from across the continent and the diaspora gathered online for the Evidence for Women Values-Driven Leadership Development Masterclass. The session that drew particular attention carried a title that is fast becoming the defining question for African enterprise: Leading in the AI Era, How Leaders Can Leverage Artificial Intelligence for Greater Impact.
Its facilitator was Samrah Kasozi, an artificial intelligence researcher, entrepreneur, and international relations scholar who serves as Dean for Africa at the Quantis Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Business and Engineering. His work sits at the meeting point of technology, policy, education, and development, with a steady focus on how each can be turned into opportunity for individuals and communities.
His message to the room was direct. Artificial intelligence is already reshaping how people work, communicate, make decisions, and solve problems, and the leaders who learn to harness it will be the ones who create real impact in their organisations and communities. For Kasozi, preparing women and girls for leadership cannot be separated from equipping them to navigate a world that grows more technology-driven by the month.
Building institutions, empowering people, and shaping the future through knowledge, innovation, and service.
That line, published on his own platform, reads less like a slogan and more like a working brief. Kasozi is an alumnus of the 2024 Foreign Policy Executive Program at the American Centre Kampala and holds a degree in International Relations and Diplomatic Studies. He is now pursuing two master's degrees at once, one in International Relations, Global Affairs and Diplomatic Studies, and another in Computer Science with a specialisation in Artificial Intelligence, a pairing that mirrors his conviction that Africa's future will be decided where policy and technology meet.
His central concern is one this publication has followed closely. Africa risks being left behind in the global shift to artificial intelligence unless its people and its institutions move with intention. Kasozi's answer is not to wait, but to build: to strengthen human capital, to create innovative institutions, and to advance Africa's place in the global knowledge economy. It is a message that trades anxiety for agency.
The setting mattered too. The masterclass is the work of Evidence for Women, a programme devoted to values-driven leadership development for women and girls. Its choice to put artificial intelligence at the centre of a leadership curriculum signals a wider shift, that technological fluency is no longer a specialist's concern but a core competency of leadership itself.
For a continent that is so often described as behind, voices like Kasozi's reframe the story. The gap is real. So is the opportunity. And the founders, educators, and leaders who choose to move now are the ones who will decide what African leadership looks like in the age of AI.
About Samrah Kasozi
Dean for Africa at the Quantis Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Business and Engineering. Artificial intelligence researcher, entrepreneur, and international relations scholar. His interests span international relations and diplomacy, artificial intelligence and emerging technologies, higher education and capacity building, entrepreneurship and innovation, and global affairs and sustainable development.
Learn more: samrahkasozi.com
Reported from the Evidence for Women Values-Driven Leadership Development Masterclass and Samrah Kasozi's published professional profile. No remarks are attributed to Mr. Kasozi beyond his own published statement of philosophy.
