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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 ...

When she was a girl in South Africa’s Northern Cape, Katrina Esau stopped speaking her mother tongue, N|uu, after being mocked by other people and told it was an “ugly language.” Now at age 90, she is ...

A stand-up comedian’s joke about the Mzansi accent has triggered backlash, reopening debates about cultural stereotypes, identity, and global misrepresentation ...

Scientists record 9,000 hours of languages spoken in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa as free-access training data for AI models. More than 2,000 languages spoken in Africa are being neglected in the ...

Africa is certainly a place worth visiting. It has many gorgeous countries that have plenty to offer. Many nations on the world's second biggest continent also seem to be developing quickly and ...

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