About us
bantou designs, prototypes and operates artificial-intelligence products for businesses — identity verification, business intelligence, business automation, ERP integration — hosted on the continent, within the BCEAO, UEMOA, CEMAC and GDPR frameworks.
We started from a simple observation: too many technologies meant for Africa are designed elsewhere, hosted elsewhere, and run elsewhere. We take the opposite bet — products that actually run, data that stays on the continent, and execution fast enough that today's idea is a live demo next week.
bantou is driven by a simple conviction: Africa's technological sovereignty is built with concrete products, not speeches.
Founder of bantou, Radwan drives the product vision and turns concrete business needs into platforms that hold up in production. His throughline: ship fast, without ever compromising on rigor, compliance and data sovereignty.
LinkedInExpert developer, Ali designs and builds the platforms in the bantou portfolio — from eKYC to orchestration. He carries the demand for robustness, quality and performance that keeps products running in production, not just in demos.
Three principles, nothing more — but firmly held.
01 — Sovereignty
Data, models, infrastructure: hosted on the continent, access control, immutable traceability. No opaque dependencies, no data leaks.
02 — Compliance
BCEAO, UEMOA, CEMAC, GDPR: regulation isn't a constraint bolted on afterward — it's built into every product from the design stage.
03 — Speed
AI-assisted code generation, validated patterns and sovereign deployment: from idea to live subdomain in record time, without ever short-circuiting human review.
A project to scope, an ERP to integrate, a POC to bring to life? Let's talk — or price your idea in a few clicks.