Google and a consortium of African research institutions have launched the WAXAL dataset, a major new effort to correct one ...

Imagine building an African startup, and your first reference point is Silicon Valley. The tone, the branding, the pitch ...

A Nigerian Visual Artist, Yele Akin-Johnson is at the forefront of global digital culture by re-imagining African visual language in a global digital economy. Akin-Johnson is working at the porous ...

In early 2023, Álvaro Soto was looking for Las doce figuras del mundo, a short story co-written by one of his favourite authors, Jorge Luis Borges. To track down the book in which the story was ...

FIFA looks back at some of the highlights of the African qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup 2026, including Cabo Verde's epic achievement. Each of the last seven editions of the FIFA World Cup™ has ...

The Federal Government on Wednesday cancelled the National Language Policy, which stipulated that the language of instruction in early childhood to primary school (up to Year 6) should be the mother ...

Nigerian music legend 2Face Idibia has opened up about the bitter-sweet nature of his hit song “African Queen”. Speaking on the Entertainment & Lifestyle show, he described it as both a blessing and a ...

An endangered African penguin chick recently hatched at the Lincoln Park Zoo just in time for the holiday season. In a news release issued Thursday, the zoo reported the healthy chick hatched Oct. 1 ...

A dearth of African-language content is delaying the uptake of artificial intelligence on the continent, compounding a lack of access to the technology, according to mobile industry body GSMA. The ...

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages? When Kenneth Wehr started ...

Researchers are trying to bridge the access gap for non-English speaking Africans using AI by releasing the largest known dataset of African languages. The African Next Voices project collected 9,000 ...

BBC Studios has announced that Bluey, the celebrated animated series, has been dubbed in four widely spoken African languages: Zulu, Afrikaans, Swahili, and Nigerian Pidgin. TV Presenter and Podcaster ...