AI Side Hustles That Actually Pay in Africa Going Into 2027

Chasing the wrong AI gig because it sounds futuristicWe flew to Lagos in March for what a WhatsApp group called an “AI data annotation bootcamp,” paid the R900 each entry fee, and discovered the platform behind it paid out in a currency pegged so loosely to the naira that our first invoice shrank by almost a third between submission and payout.