This book, Emerging Opportunities and Challenges in Africa focusses on the influence of Artificial Intelligence and the 4th Industrial Revolution on development. The book is conceived against the incredible number of changes taking place on the African continent, inspired by emerging opportunities created by AI and its effects on development imperatives. There is admission among researchers that the role of artificial intelligence in development in Africa can no longer be ignored or wished away as a notion and idea for others. Chapters in this book show that AI is opening up new opportunities in Africa’s quest for development in ways that were not thought possible few years ago. AI is creating new frontiers and impetus for progress and advancement on the continent, while creating new challenges as well. The chapters in this book, create new dynamics, raise new questions about the entire subject of progress, predicated on AI. The pursuit of AI in Africa is bridging gaps and celebrating Africa’s own voices, agency and spaces in how AI is affecting the continent. Research has revealed that Artificial Intelligence, new geo-political dynamics, shifting global demographics, gender parity, recognition of minorities, growth of democracy, and better environmental and ethical consciousness are raising the hope of development in Africa.