The African Next Voices project has started out with sites in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa. Iuliia Anisimova/iStock Language is how we interact, ask for help, and hold meaning in community. We use ...

The underrepresentation of Indigenous African languages online has long been a challenge. In recent years, Africans have taken up the task of bridging this digital divide, recognizing the importance ...

A coalition of African and global partners has launched a collaborative initiative aimed at developing inclusive African large language models (LLMs) to strengthen the continent’s artificial ...

As the AI revolution transforms the digital world, millions of people on the African continent cannot tap its full promise because the languages they speak aren’t built into the large language models ...

A new 21-language dataset gives African institutions ownership and control in a field long dominated by Big Tech.

The global push to develop artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer just about computing power or algorithmic breakthroughs, it’s about who gets to speak and who gets left out in the digital future.

African languages are still struggling as subjects and as languages of learning and teaching in our higher education sector.

New translation models, open speech datasets, and automatic speech recognition benchmarks aim to expand AI support for African languages.