# African NLP
zindi.africa
This project focuses on **compressing the InkubaLM model** to improve its efficiency for Swahili and Hausa.
## Objective
- Reduce **model size** while maintaining or improving performance.
- Enable **faster inference on CPUs** for African languages.
## Tasks
- Sentiment Analysis
- AfriXNLI (True/False Question Answering)
- Machine Translation (English ↔ Swahili/Hausa)
## Impact
Smaller, optimized language models can power **education, healthcare, and AI services** in African languages.