From text-generating ChatGPT to voice-activated Siri, artificial intelligence-powered tools are designed to aid our everyday life -- as long as you speak a language they support. These technologies ...

The sixth edition of The Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature, suspended last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, is back. Founded in 2014, the prize recognises writing in African ...

New York City neighborhoods where the most common language spoken at home isn't English stand out on web developer and designer Jill Hubley's latest census map like islands: deep blue Spanish in ...

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 ...

African indigenous language advocates, linguists and volunteers are pushing ahead with making digital platforms and online content more accessible in local languages. Main Languages of the internet: ...

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 ...