Africa is home to an astonishingly diverse array of languages, each reflecting the continent's rich cultural and historical fabric. At first glance, the map of Africa’s many languages may seem ...

James Kabarebe, has said taht Kiswahili is a powerful tool for regional integration, cultural unity, and sustainable development. He said this on Sunday, July 6, as he opened the 4th World Kiswahili ...

The death of Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o in May 2025 raises the question of his influence in French-speaking Africa: how ...

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 ...

Over 2,000 languages originate in Africa, but natural language processing programs support very few of them. Advocates hope to change that.

On the occasion of World Kiswahili Language Day at UNESCO, the Permanent Delegations of East African Member States to UNESCO, ...

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 ...

The prize, which was established by Dr Lizzy Attree and Dr Mukoma Wa Ngugi in 2014 to recognise writing in African languages ...

While delivering remarks at the Earthshot Prize Awards on Wednesday, Nov. 6, Prince William spoke nine African languages as a sign of respect to a continent he has previously said “has always ...

Ngũgĩ would be remembered as a “passionate believer of the central phrase of African languages in literature,” Soyinka told The Associated Press. “He believed that the literature needs to be as much ...