AfriSpeech/african-nlp-communities

Index of NLP communities and organizations for African languages # African NLP Communities A directory of communities, organizations, and labs working on NLP for African languages. If you know of a community missing here, please open an issue or submit a PR. ## Contents - Pan-African - West Africa - East Africa - North Africa - Southern Africa - Central Africa --- ## Pan-African | Community | GitHub | Description | | :-- | :-- | :-- | | Masakhane | masakhane-io | Grassroots NLP community. 4,000+ members across 48 countries. Machine translation, NER, QA, POS tagging, TTS for 48 languages. | | Lanfrica | lanfrica | Cataloging all African AI resources — datasets, models, papers, policies across 2,199 languages. | | Zindi Africa | zindiafrica | Africa's data science competition platform. Hosts NLP challenges for African languages. | | Lelapa AI | Lelapa-AI | Language AI startup. Vulavula API (NER, sentiment, MT, ASR, TTS), InkubaLM. 13+ languages. | | AfriSpeech | AfriSpeech | Speech data corpus builder for 693 African languages. ASR, TTS, language identification. | | AfriNLP | AfriNLP | Research org focused on efficient translation models for African languages. | | LocaleNLP | LocaleNLP | NLP models for low-resource African languages. AfriLION, Darija translation. Based in Morocco. | | Deep Learning Indaba | deeplearningindaba.com | Annual ML conference + 47 IndabaX country chapters. Capacity building across Africa. | --- ## West Africa ### Nigeria | Community | GitHub | Description | | :-- | :-- | :-- | | HausaNLP | hausanlp | Research community for Hausa NLP. 36+ papers at ACL/EMNLP/NAACL. NaijaSenti corpus. | | NaijaML | naijaml | Sovereign ML infrastructure. Python NLP tools for diacritics, Nigerian names, code-mixing. | | Nigeria AI Collective | aicollectiveng | Catalogue of Nigeria's AI ecosystem: startups, datasets, tools, policies. | ### Ghana | Community | GitHub | Description | | :-- | :-- | :-- | | Ghana NLP | GhanaNLP | Open-source NLP for Ghanaian languages. Khaya Translator, ABENA, corpus builder. 66 repos …