Myth'd is an essay project about power, infrastructure, and the myths that make harmful systems look reasonable. Using a set of named frameworks, Myth'd examines how extraction is normalised.

How AI Inherited a Civilisational Crime | Contextual Orphaning and The UnBlacking of Egypt

AI systems are not biased without good reason. They inherited a five-century operation that stripped African civilisational knowledge from its origins before the first model was ever trained. For organisations relying on Article 10 compliance alone, the liability gap is already open.

The Mythology of Neutral Systems: Facial Recognition Bias Is a Historical One.

Facial recognition has led to the wrongful jailing of a Tennessee grandmother, scanned 2.5 million faces & wrong algorithm in Essex. 50 van rollout across England and Wales. On who it archive was built to watch, why biometric risk management & AI governance frameworks.

The Mythology of Authoritative Knowledge: When the Teachers Learn From a Broken Archive

As the UK parliamentary inquiry, the EU AI Act, and 52 US state bills converge on AI in education, one question remains unasked: whose knowledge did the archive exclude before the system was trained? On algorithmic bias, decolonising AI, and what archive correction requires.

The Mythology of Equality: When the World Was Asked to Name Its Gravest Crime

The UN asked the world to name the gravest crime against humanity, and exposed the limits of the equality the world governance system claims to uphold, and the limits of equal recognition in a system that still cannot fully reckon with its own foundations.

Technological Neutrality and the Myth of Impartial Systems

Unpacks the Myth of Neutrality, arguing that so‑called impartial systems encode institutional priorities while presenting their decisions as technical facts.

The Quiet Expansion of Surveillance and the Myth of Security

Explores how security language legitimises expanding surveillance infrastructures, reframing observation as protection rather than power.

Institutional Process and the Myth of Legitimacy

Examines how institutions use procedure as a myth of legitimacy, asking us to trust the architecture because the proper process was followed.

The Expansion of Digital Surveillance

Shows how digital surveillance expands quietly through security narratives and invisible authority, turning monitoring infrastructures into everyday governance.

Africa and the Cartography of AI Power

Maps the cartography of AI power, tracing how infrastructures and narratives position Africa as the first quarry for algorithmic colonialism.

AI Sovereignty and the Infrastructure of Power

This essay uses the Infrastructure Principle to show how talk of AI sovereignty can mask new dependencies on foreign compute and cloud infrastructures in Africa.

Cultural Stewardship and the Myth of Guardianship

This essay uses the Infrastructure Principle to show how talk of AI sovereignty can mask new dependencies on foreign compute and cloud infrastructures in Africa.