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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 ...

A language is an inescapable tool for communication and, words are one of the tools of expression. Even if it is impossible to dissociate language and culture, it is possible, even though difficult, ...

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 ...

Ni hao , Chinese for “hello,” or ting bu dong, meaning “I hear you, but I don’t understand,” are two expressions one often overhears today in Zimbabwe’s capital. It is one of the results of tenacious ...

Between April 20 to May 22, 2020, Global Voices sub-Saharan Africa in conjunction with Rising Voices hosted a Twitter conversation as part of the project, “The identity matrix: Platform regulation of ...

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If the technologically-advanced countries of the developed world were to introduce stringent trade agreements against countries, which do not have the technological knowhow to power their economies, ...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Computers have become amazingly precise at translating spoken words to text messages and scouring huge troves of information for answers to complex questions. At least, that is, ...

The governing African National Congress (ANC) held a rally in Sharpeville (suburban Johannesburg) on March 21 to celebrate Human Rights Day and to commemorate the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre, widely ...

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 ...