Message from General Chairs and Technical Program Chairs

With Africhi 2025 taking place in Egypt, a country with a remarkable ancient history and a great civilization, we were encouraged to explore how HCI could help build ties between our roots and digital futures. Digital technologies have become inextricably linked with the discussions of global futures. In the age of AI, user data is the new oil. African users are being pulled in different directions by technologies that rarely represent their philosophies, cultures, and values, let alone speak their 3000+ languages. We chose to pause, invite African technology designers to re-discover their roots and find their center.  “Re-centering African wisdom in HCI” is the focus of Africhi 2025, in which we seek inspiration from African wisdom to “design” our digital futures. African wisdom is not only the potent African indigenous knowledge; it is also the collective AfriCHI community wisdom that was formed as a result of their pursuit of HCI scholarship both outside and inside the continent. By re-centering our expertise, we are also re-centering African countries' aspirations for digital flourishing and creating  African-centered and situated experiences for ALL African users. 

We invite you to join us next year in Egypt as we embark on a visionary quest to make African wisdom-inspired HCI a lighthouse of progress, creativity, and togetherness across Africa, transforming obstacles into opportunities, ideas into reality, and aspirations into a shared future.

Shaimaa Lazem

General Chair

Obinna Anya

General Chair

Heike Winschiers-Theophilus

Technical Program Chair

Menna Saleh

Technical Program Chair

Makuochi S. Nkwo

Technical Program Chair