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.

Learning a new foreign language can be very beneficial and you can try starting with the following easiest African languages to learn. This is useful if you plan to travel to Africa or you are just ...

Critiqued by Tejumola Olaniyan, Akinwumi Ogundiran, Grey Gundaker and Adeleke Adeeko with response by Rowland Abiodun in African studies review (Piscataway, NJ) 58 (3) December 2015, pages 215-223 ...

July 27 (UPI) --In West Africa, drummers speak through their instruments -- literally. According to a new study, the dùndúns drum -- in the hands of a skilled percussionist -- can accurately mimic the ...

The English language has dominated online discourse as the “universal” language of communication since the inception of the internet. As of February 2020, over half of the websites on the internet are ...

Africa has a wide population with at least 75 languages having more than one million speakers. These languages are grouped into four: Niger-Congo, Nilo-Saharan, Afroasiatic, and Khoisan. The ...

If you’ve ever caught yourself singing along to a song in a language you don’t speak, welcome to the club. That’s the magic of music, especially African music. From Lagos to Dar es Salaam to Accra, ...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Computers have become amazingly precise at translating spoken words to text messages and scouring huge troves of information for answers to complex questions. At least, that is, ...