When a language isn’t in the data, its speakers aren’t in the product – and AI cannot be safe, useful, or fair for them.

Language is the foundation of life. All of our actions, perspectives and cultures stem from how we communicate with others. Our communities are tied to their methods of communication. But what happens ...

When she was a girl in South Africa’s Northern Cape, Katrina Esau stopped speaking her mother tongue, N|uu, after being mocked by other people and told it was an “ugly language.” Now at age 90, she is ...

EqualyzAI, a pioneering African-centric AI start-up, officially unveiled its solutions today with a bold mission: to build AI solutions that solve real-world problems in emerging markets using ...

In her humble home on the red soil of the Green Kalahari, 92-year-old Katrina Esau listened intently as her two great-grandchildren practised the ancient N|uu language of South Africa's indigenous San ...

When New Jersey students get home from school each day, they are speaking languages that criss-cross the globe — from the African language Afar, to the Indian language Marathi and the Nigerian ...

Standup comedian Jacques Silvère Bah, known as Le Magnific, played with French and African words and accents at a humor festival in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, in February. Arlette Bashizi for The New York ...

The African Next Voices project, primarily funded by the Gates Foundation (with other funding from Meta) and involving a network of African universities and organisations, recently released what's ...