Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An illustration of an antique photograph of the British Empire's mission work among the Zulu people of then-Natal province.

The African Next Voices project has started out with sites in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa. Iuliia Anisimova/iStock Language is how we interact, ask for help, and hold meaning in community. We use ...

Experts say content creators on TikTok are increasingly helping to promote everyday use of indigenous languages, often through digital content centred on traditional food, farming and humour.

Cape Peninsula University of Technology provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. South African indigenous languages are among those at risk of a serious decline due to the increasing ...

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 ...

JOHANNESBURG, Aug 3 (Reuters) - Bongumusa Manana, a 19-year-old deaf student who studies in a township in Johannesburg, sees South Africa's move to recognise sign as an official language as a huge ...

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 computer ...