Qubit Hub, incubated by Qhala under QTrust, is an African AI research, innovation and development lab designed to bring together researchers, technologists, data scientists, policymakers and builders working on practical AI solutions for the continent.
Qhala, Amini AI, Angani and iXAfrica Data Centres announced a collaboration to host Qubit Hub at iXAfrica NBOX1, creating a strategic environment where AI research, cloud capability, data infrastructure and digital sovereignty can converge.
The announcement was made during AI Everything GITEX Kenya 2026, as Kenya continues to position itself as a serious AI, cloud and digital infrastructure hub for Africa. Qubit Hub, incubated by Qhala under QTrust, is an African AI research, innovation and development lab designed to bring together researchers, technologists, data scientists, policymakers and builders working on practical AI solutions for the continent.
This collaboration brings together a complementary ecosystem: Qhala provides the innovation, research and ecosystem-building platform behind Qubit Hub; Amini AI strengthens the sovereign, compute, AI and data infrastructure layer; Angani brings local cloud capability to support testing, deployment and scale; and iXAfrica provides the AI-ready, carrier-neutral data centre infrastructure required to host and power the ecosystem.
Together, the partners are creating a local foundation for African AI development that moves beyond ambition into practical execution. Qubit Hub is designed to bring Africa’s AI builders, researchers, technologists and policymakers closer to the infrastructure they need to build responsibly and at scale, creating the right environment for African AI innovation to move from ideas into real-world deployment.
“With this partnership, we are solving for compute, talent and community. iXAfrica is AI-ready, and they are providing the infrastructure we need to ensure we can scale as the continent’s needs grow — which means we can deliver this not just to Kenya, but to researchers across the region. This is not a Kenya-only construct. It is about providing compute to AI builders and researchers across Africa. This is exciting.”
– Dr. Shikoh Gitau, CEO, Qhala
The collaboration reflects a clear shift in Africa’s AI conversation: the next phase will not be won by models alone, but by trusted data, cloud access, compute capacity, governance, local infrastructure and ecosystem coordination. By hosting Qubit Hub infrastructure at iXAfrica, the partners are reinforcing Kenya’s role as a launchpad for AI innovation, sovereign cloud, data infrastructure and regional digital growth.
The partners said the collaboration is intended to support researchers, startups, enterprises and policymakers as they move from AI discussion to practical deployment, with Kenya positioned as a key base for Africa’s AI infrastructure ecosystem.
