MIT Technology Review

This company is building AI for African languages

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 ...
CNN

Africa has thousands of languages. Can AI be trained on all of them?

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 ...
The Conversation

African languages for AI: the project that’s gathering a huge new dataset

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 ...
Popular Science

AI programs often exclude African languages. These researchers have a plan to fix that.

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The Nation Newspaper

African writers must embrace indigenous languages to reclaim history — Mohammed

FORMER Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has urged African writers to embrace indigenous languages in order to reclaim their history and cultural identity. Mohammed, who is also the ...