African languages should be promoted at a national rather than provincial level. Higher education institutions should develop ...

Economically, Nkenne sits at an interesting juncture. On one side is the language-learning app, aimed at individuals – both ...

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 ...

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 ...

Africa has a wide population with at least 75 languages having more than one million speakers. These languages are grouped into four: Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, Afroasiatic, and Khoisan. The ...

If you could hop on a plane and fly straight southwest from India, right over the Indian Ocean, you'd eventually land in ...

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 ...