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Honoring the Legacy of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o at Lanfrica

Lanfrica V2 is Here! A New Era for African AI Discovery

Lanfrica partners with Mila

Partnership: Lanfrica Joins Mila’s Entrepreneurship Lab To Map Africa’s AI Ecosystem

How To Scale Language Data Ecosystems to Drive Industrial Development Growth

Announcing the 2025 Cohort of the NaijaVoices Language Heritage Micro-Grant

Building a Future of Accessible, Inclusive Education

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Honoring the Legacy of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o at Lanfrica

Lanfrica V2 is Here! A New Era for African AI Discovery

Lanfrica partners with Mila

Partnership: Lanfrica Joins Mila’s Entrepreneurship Lab To Map Africa’s AI Ecosystem

How To Scale Language Data Ecosystems to Drive Industrial Development Growth

Announcing the 2025 Cohort of the NaijaVoices Language Heritage Micro-Grant

Building a Future of Accessible, Inclusive Education

Call for Proposals: The NaijaVoices Language Heritage Micro-Grants

The State of African Language Datasets

Lanfrica V2 – What’s Cooking Under the Hood

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The legacy of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, alongside that of many African scholars, has profoundly shaped our perspectives of our language and culture …

Lanfrica V2 has landed! A new way to discover the vast ecosystem of African AI. Play around with it: https://lanfrica.com Lanfrica is …

Discoverability is a pressing challenge facing many African languages and resources, leaving Africa severely underrepresented in AI. This is why we are …

*Recommendations from a discussion paper co-designed with the G7 Italian Presidency, and implemented by the UNDP, with Lanfrica as an expert contributor. …

Nigeria is home to a rich tapestry of over 500 languages, yet most of them are undocumented, unappreciated, and largely endangered. In …

Not long ago, in many parts of Africa, children would rise before dawn to walk miles along dusty paths just to reach …

NaijaVoices announces the Language Heritage Micro-Grant, a national call for proposals to support community-driven projects that build, enrich, and conserve Nigeria’s linguistic …

Motivation Our digital world is a rich tapestry of ideas, languages, cultures, and knowledge. However, our access to and understanding of these …