In this analysis, we focus on the importance of culture through African languages in the construction of identity and community. Linguistic alienation, the expression of a colonization of the mind.

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 ...

From text-generating ChatGPT to voice-activated Siri, artificial intelligence-powered tools are designed to aid our everyday life -- as long as you speak a language they support. These technologies ...

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 ...

When it comes to natural language processing (NLP) research on the African continent, few organisations are doing more than Masakhane. As part of its latest efforts, the Masakhane African Languages ...

More recently, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger moved French to the background and made local languages like Hausa and Bambara official. Rwanda switched from French to English to better connect with the ...

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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 ...

Researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Johannesburg (South Africa), specializing in the study of digital technologies and their impact on the African labour market. Recently, a Kenyan ...

AI models can’t understand African languages. Lelapa AI is trying to change that. Inside a co-working space in the Rosebank neighborhood of Johannesburg, Jade Abbott popped open a tab on her computer ...

Kiswahili is spoken across eastern and central Africa. Mother-tongue speakers are found mainly along the coast, but Kiswahili is spoken as a second or third language by people around the world.