The Ghana Education Service (GES) has given the green light for the use of 22 African slangs that are now officially ...

How do you teach somebody to read a language if there’s nothing for them to read? This is the problem facing developers across the African continent who are trying to train AI to understand and ...

Swahili, also known as Kiswahili, is widely spoken throughout East Africa and serves as a lingua franca in several countries including Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Mozambique, and the ...

Researchers from the University of Cape Town (UCT), working with international collaborators, have shown that people in northern Mozambique use regionally distinct "dialects" when communicating with ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Siri or Google Assistant are developed by the global north and trained in English, Chinese or European languages. In comparison, African ...

Researchers from the University of Cape Town reveal that honey-hunting communities in northern Mozambique use distinct dialects to communicate with honeyguide birds, showcasing a unique example of ...

The University of Colorado Linguistics Department is seeking speakers of hitherto un-described African languages to participate in research projects whose aim is to produce descriptions of those ...

The Masakhane African Languages Hub (the Hub) has announced a major Request for Proposals (RFP) to address the severe underrepresentation of African languages in Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Hub ...