Zainab Taonga Chirwa

Zainab Taonga Chirwa is a Research Assistant at the African Hub on AI Safety, Peace and Security at the University of Cape Town. Her research focuses on AI governance, the geopolitics of emerging technologies, and the implications of AI for national security, state capacity and African agency. She is currently supporting Annette Hübschle’s research on harmscaping, while also exploring questions of technological interdependence and the ways states exercise statecraft through digital infrastructure, regulation, procurement and strategic resources. Her broader work examines sovereignty, accountability and public-private power in the development and deployment of emerging technologies. She holds an LLB from the University of Cape Town and a BA in Law and Geography from Rhodes University.