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 ...

Languages are not only mediums of communication but also repositories of cultural identity, history, and tradition. However, many languages around Africa are disappearing at an alarming rate. Some ...

Scientists record 9,000 hours of languages spoken in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa as free-access training data for AI models. More than 2,000 languages spoken in Africa are being neglected in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu tongue, Swahili has evolved into Africa’s most internationally-recognised language. It is peer to the few languages of the world that boast over ...

The Prince of Wales has previously said that Africa “has always held a special place in my heart” Simon Perry is a writer and correspondent at PEOPLE. He has more than 25 years’ experience at PEOPLE ...

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 ...

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 ...