In Kenya you can learn AI through three main routes, short online courses, guided training and formal study, and the right route depends on what you want AI to do for you.
Most beginners start with a short online course, because a good one teaches you what AI is, how to write prompts (the instructions you give an AI tool) and how to use the common tools, all within hours or weeks rather than years, and without any coding. Guided training is the second route, which means a cohort, a coach or a corporate class where someone reviews your actual work and pushes you past the theory, and this suits leaders and teams who want AI applied to real decisions, reports and client work instead of demonstrated on slides. Formal study at a Kenyan university, usually in computer science or data science, is the third route and the most demanding, because it requires mathematics and programming, so choose it only when you want to build AI systems yourself rather than use the ones that already exist.
Whichever route you take, progress comes from steady practice, so pick one task you already repeat every week, such as summarising reports or drafting client emails, and run it through an AI tool daily for a month, because a month of real use teaches you more than any list of features.
If you would rather start with structure, we at EddyLabs offer beginner level, self paced courses, including The AI-Fluent Operator, an 18 hour course that walks through prompting, ChatGPT, Claude, NotebookLM and Perplexity, and we also run a guided group programme called the AI Clarity Cohort for people who learn better with direction.