The Algorithm of Us and Other Stories That Remember
When a city trusts an algorithm more than its people, a mother and daughter rewrite the code of truth.
In Accra, the Unified Behavioral Algorithm decides everything-credit, healthcare, even who gets to keep their child. When loyal data scientist Ama Danso is abruptly downgraded and marked "socially disruptive," her life collapses overnight. Hunting for answers, Ama uncovers a buried engine trained on colonial-era records-an invisible system that punishes language, ritual, and community as "risk."
On the run, Ama finds the Nsoromma Collective-hackers, historians, and Storykeepers who encrypt resistance in rhythm, proverb, and song. But the system fears what it can't classify. It turns its gaze on Ama's daughter, Esi, whose uncanny voice carries a forgotten oral code capable of confusing the machine itself.
What follows is a high-stakes struggle across markets and ministries, safehouses and server rooms, from drone-lit rooftops to ancestral shrines-toward a blackout that forces a nation to remember. As truth commissions convene and a new ethics of technology takes root, The Algorithm of Us asks a burning question: Who gets to define "order"-and what if the future is built from stories, not scores?
A lyrical, propulsive techno-fable set in Ghana, this novel blends surveillance thriller with myth and memory-about mothers and daughters, the politics of data, and the power of a people who refuse to be reduced to numbers.
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