At the University of Lagos, Lagos State Deputy Governor Hamzat placed a quiet but consequential argument before Nigeria's academic community: that artificial intelligence, to serve a nation, must first speak its languages. Addressing chronic teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms, and uneven resources, he called not for the importation of foreign technology but for the cultivation of indigenous intelligence — AI systems rooted in Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, and the lived realities of Nigerian learners. His vision belongs to a larger human question that every society must eventually answer: whether