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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

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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

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

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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 …

For the past 9 months, we have been hard at work on revamping Lanfrica. As we wrap up, we wanted to share …

At Lanfrica, we believe that language is inherent for human communication and communication. While many language technology efforts are based on text, …