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AI and NLP Driving the Future of Healthcare Innovation in Africa

From Consumers to Builders – Lanfrica’s Data Unconference Recap

Why Linguistic Collaboration Is Important In Advancing NLP Tools in Africa

Empowering African Voices in AI – Lanfrica’s DLI 2024 Workshop Recap

Improving Discoverability and Impact of African Resources

[Remote] Opportunities at Lanfrica​ Labs

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Call for Proposals: The NaijaVoices Language Heritage Micro-Grants

The State of African Language Datasets

Lanfrica V2 – What’s Cooking Under the Hood

Your Voice Matters: Join the TWB Voice Project and Make A Difference

How Open Source is Powering the Future of African NLP

Lanfrica Labs Partners with LyngualLabs to Launch “Fundamentals of AI Research Writing” Webinar Series

The Fundamentals of AI Research Writing Workshop

Lanfrica at WIPO: Copyright Policies for the development of Artificial Intelligence in Latin America and Africa

Will AI Make Farming in Africa More Sustainable or More Complex?

Lanfrica at LT4ALL 2025: Data Farming and The NaijaVoices Experience

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in 2024: Transforming Lives & Industries In Africa.

Lanfrica Blog

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 …

This webinar intends to discuss the question of how we can build language technologies for our minority/indigenous/endangered languages and dialects. Language is …

Lanfrica and the problems facing the advancement of technologies for African languages On Thursday, August 11 2022, at 7:00 a.m. UTC,  Lanfrica …

Fon Language Highlight

The Fon language is spoken by about 1.7-2 million people. With very few related resources available online, it is one of the …