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Hammet
For secondary school students in Nigeria
Hammet teaches secondary school students in Nigeria how to think with, work with, and reason about AI, safely and confidently.
Learn more about Hammet→An African AI research and product company
Building safe AIfor the African century.
HammetLabs is a research-driven AI company creating responsible AI products that understand the African context, serve African needs, and are built with African people in mind.
Our Mission
To build safe and responsible AI products that understand the African context, serve African needs, and are built with African people in mind.
Africa is the world's youngest continent and one of its most dynamic. The AI systems shaping the next century should reflect that reality. We design, research, and ship AI from within Africa, i.e. for the realities, languages, classrooms, and institutions of our continent.
Our Vision
To be the AI research and product company that proved Africa does not just consume AI; it builds it, safely and responsibly.
What We Build
Products with purpose.
We build AI products grounded in real African contexts. Our first product is Hammet, an AI literacy platform for secondary school students in Nigeria.
In development
More products coming
Across education, language, and civic infrastructure
We're building a portfolio of safe, context-aware AI products for African education, language, and public good.
HammetLabs Research
A research-driven organisation.
HammetLabs is not just a product company. We are committed to understanding how AI can be built and deployed responsibly for African contexts, and publishing what we learn.
AI safety for African contexts
Studying how frontier AI systems behave when applied to African languages, institutions, and use-cases.
AI literacy and education
Researching how young Africans learn to reason with AI, and what curricula and tools serve them best.
Responsible AI deployment
Frameworks, evaluations, and policy work for deploying AI in classrooms, governments, and the public sphere.
African language and cultural representation
Improving how African languages, knowledge systems, and culture are represented inside modern AI models.
Why Africa
The decisions made now will define the next century.
Africa is not a side-story in the future of AI. It is one of the central stories. We exist to make sure that story is written by Africans, safely.
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of Africans are under 30
The world's youngest continent and its largest future AI workforce.
0.0B
people in Africa by 2050
A quarter of humanity. The systems built today will serve them tomorrow.
0%
of global AI research is African-led
The adoption gap is real. The opportunity is generational.
Our Approach
Safety is not a feature. It is the foundation.
HammetLabs operates under a Responsible Scaling Policy, a public commitment to how we develop, evaluate, and deploy increasingly capable AI systems. We are building a credible, thoughtful AI company, not chasing growth at any cost.
Who We Are
Founded by three Africans, for Africa.
We are operators, researchers, and builders who believe Africa's AI future should be built by Africans.
PO
Prince Obinna
CEO & Co-founder
Leads strategy, partnerships, and the long-term direction of HammetLabs.
AN
Angel Nwafor
CPO & Co-founder
Leads product, design, and how our work meets the people it serves.
OO
Oluebube Okafor
CTO & Co-founder
Leads engineering, research infrastructure, and our model and safety stack.
Partner With Us
Build the future of African AI with us.
We partner with schools, governments, research institutions, foundations, and investors who share our commitment to safe, African-built AI. If that's you, we'd like to talk.
Careers
Work with us.
We're looking for unusually serious, unusually kind people who want to build AI that matters for Africa. Researchers, engineers, designers, operators... if our mission is your mission, we want to meet you.
- High Agency
- Excellence
- Urgency
- Accountability
- Family