Bayɛlɛmabaga is a word in Bambara, the most widely spoken language in Mali, which means "translator". Bayɛlɛmabaga is a collaborative project which aims to apply automatic natural language processing - in English: Natural language processing (NLP) - to Bambara and, ultimately, to all the other national languages of Mali. All these languages lack resources (written and bilingual texts). They face the challenge of gathering sufficient data to train NLP systems using deep learning techniques. Bayɛlɛmabaga is developing techniques to collect data using crowdsourcing and other new methods of data acquisition and cleaning. Current Bayɛlɛmabaga participants include researchers from the Rochester Institute of Technology and Orange in the United States and, in Mali, linguists from AMALAN (Malian Academy of Languages), technologists from RobotsMali, the Malian National Education Center for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, and the Malian Ministry of Education, Higher Education and Scientific Research. Bayɛlɛmabaga is striving to become a national project in Mali as part of its initiative to use science and technology to advance its education and economic development. 80% of Malians do not master the official language of the country, French, and they therefore do not have access to information resources which could help them to contribute more to national development. The promotion of national languages is therefore an official objective of the Malian government and Bayɛlɛmabaga is a tool which can accelerate their widespread and effective use.