Kenya's AI outsourcing model was sold as ethical and sustainable, but Sama's collapse under a single contract termination exposes what that model actually guarantees. When Meta ended its agreement, Sama had no buffer — the Nairobi centre's redundancy notices for over 1,100 workers followed almost immediately. The "impact employer" framing did not change the fundamental arithmetic: a workforce built to serve one client's annotation pipeline has no institutional protection the moment that client decides the pipeline is no longer needed. The annotators who lost work this week are not a…