Dr. Adio Dinika is a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR) and a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bremen's Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI), where he co-leads the AI Pan-Africanism project. His research examines AI labour, digital colonialism, platform economies and the political struggles shaping technology governance in Africa. Drawing on empirical research across African contexts, he explores how workers, communities and historically marginalised populations can exercise greater agency over the technologies that shape their lives. His work brings together critical AI studies, political economy and African philosophical traditions, particularly Ubuntu, to rethink the governance and futures of artificial intelligence.