‘It will never cover what’s authentic’: African music industry weighs up AI risks and rewards

<p>Delegates at event in Cape Verde highlight opportunities from tech while stressing AI is no replacement for talent</p><p>Last July, the Nigerian singer-songwriter Fave found herself caught up in a viral moment: an unauthorised version of a track featuring an AI choir had been released, quickly becoming an internet sensation. To get ahead of the situation, she recorded her own remix that integrated the AI-assisted song and added it to her discography.</p><p>“In my view, [that] was smart and very business aware,” Oyinkansola Fawehinmi, a Lagos-based entertainment lawyer, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-tiktok-virality-faves-intentions-who-really-owns-moment-fawehinmi-pxcdf">observed a few months later</a>. “She essentially reclaimed the ‘AI version’ and released it as her own official expression.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/29/africa-music-industry-ai-artificial-intelligence">Continue reading...</a>