Nairobi businessman Enock Aura wins key legal victory for Kiswahili in court proceedings, as judiciary agrees to provide a ...

RWANDA: IN a significant step toward promoting the global growth of Kiswahili, Senior Lecturer and Kiswahili language expert, ...

Sparked by a presidential jab, a deeper linguistic conversation deserves to be had when Kenya 39;s President William Ruto ...

Meaning jiko la mkaa is a cooking stove that uses charcoal (mkaa) as fuel for cooking food or heating water. Jiko = ...

Pleias and the GSMA have announced the release of CommonLingua, an open-source language identification (LID) model purpose-built to unlock African language data at scale. It is delivered under the ...

While students bring energy and aspiration in French education, teachers and school leaders provide a longer view of how ...

*When Georges Budagu Makoko arrived in Maine in 2002, he spoke five languages. English was not one of them. Finding his way around the Pine Tree State proved incredibly difficult — there was almost no ...

Billed as the first joint release under the GSMA’s “AI Language Models in Africa, by Africa, for Africa” initiative, CommonLingua is a compact 2-million-parameter open-source LID model covering 334 ...

In Kenya, a team of grandmothers are lacing up their soccer shoes — and changing the lives of teenagers along the way.

Anusuyabai Pandekar and her daughter-in-law Mandabai sit facing each other beside a stone grindmill. The mill is still. No ...

While there is an effort by the NCDC to adopt more languages, the investment does not match the need. In many parts of the ...