Have you ever been to Africa? If your answer was “could you be more specific?” good for you. What comes to mind for many people upon picturing Africa is a vast land where safari animals roam freely ...
A Nigerian Visual Artist, Yele Akin-Johnson is at the forefront of global digital culture by re-imagining African visual language in a global digital economy. Akin-Johnson is working at the porous ...
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 ...
A dearth of African-language content is delaying the uptake of artificial intelligence on the continent, compounding a lack of access to the technology, according to mobile industry body GSMA. The ...
A Kenyan entrepreneur who designed an app that translates speech into sign language using AI-powered 3D avatars has won a major award for African innovation. “Think of it as Google Translate for sign ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mohamed Amoura, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Jordan Ayew, Kei Kamara and Mohamed Salah feature alongside amazing feats from Côte d’Ivoire, Morocco and Tunisia. Cabo Verde, with a population of around ...
In her humble home on the red soil of the Green Kalahari, 92-year-old Katrina Esau listened intently as her two great-grandchildren practised the ancient N|uu language of South Africa's indigenous San ...
The FIFA Disciplinary Committee has sanctioned the South African Football Association (SAFA) for having fielded an ineligible player in the FIFA World Cup 2026™ preliminary competition, The FIFA ...
BBC Studios’ Bluey has been dubbed in four spoken African languages: Zulu, Afrikaans, Swahili and Nigerian Pidgin. “Bluey has always celebrated the magic of everyday family life, and now, more ...