On October 29, 2024, Lanfrica hosted The Lanfrica Data Unconference, a fully‑virtual gathering on Zoom designed to re‑imagine who gets to shape language technology …
On October 29, 2024, Lanfrica hosted The Lanfrica Data Unconference, a fully‑virtual gathering on Zoom designed to re‑imagine who gets to shape language technology …
Understanding a language and how its native speakers speak it requires more than just knowing the words and their meanings. It involves …
On 6 September 2024, during the week‑long Deep Learning Indaba in Dakar, Senegal (1–7 Sept), Lanfrica co‑organised the full‑day workshop titled “Empowering African Voices in AI: Data, Models & Innovation”. The session …
Technology has come a long way, and amazing inventions are coming up every day. Today, people have virtual assistants on their phones …
Home Lanfrica Labs, with the support of The Masakhane Research Foundation, and FAIR Forward, an initiative of the German Development Cooperation (GIZ), …
We are excited to welcome Elizabeth Chikapa to Lanfrica as our Community Engagement Curator (CEC)! Her passion for community building, enthusiasm, skills, …
By Chris Emezue With the advent of AI and its ever-expanding applications, I have both witnessed and been at the forefront of …
In the tenth issue of ActuIA magazine, founder Chris Emezue discusses Lanfrica and our data-centric and community-driven efforts to improve AI in …
African intellectuals must do for their languages and cultures what all other intellectuals in history have done for theirs.
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