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 ...

Why are African languages still so rarely used as languages of instruction in our schools anduniversities? Why do we not see more academic research being published in these languages? Despite the fact ...

Vukosi Marivate is a Co-Founder of Lelapa AI. DSFSI is funded by the Gates Foundation, Meta, Google.org, ABSA (for the ABSA UP Chair of Data Science). Vukosi is a co-founder of the Deep Learning ...

A new Nigerian AI startup, Veta Origin, has rolled out its large language model across six African countries, aiming to provide AI designed specifically for African users rather than adapting Western ...

For decades, the internet has had a language problem. Its architecture, its logic, its defaults have been shaped by many dominant tongues, and everyone else was left to adapt. In Sub-Saharan Africa, a ...

STOCKHOLM, Aug 5 (Reuters) - French mobile operator Orange (ORAN.PA), opens new tab said on Tuesday it plans to use OpenAI's latest AI models with African languages. The benefits of AI models have ...

The 13 languages were selected based on strong and growing search usage across the continent. (Image: Supplied) Google is rolling out support for 13 African languages across its AI-powered search ...