African stories and languages could unlock billions for the continent's publishing industry if governments back local writers, a Unesco report has found. Africa's book market, now worth $7 billion, ...

At an event in Nairobi, the search giant announced it has added 15 African languages to its translation platform, writes ARTHUR GOLDSTUCK. Gadget. Google goes all in on African language, AI, skills.

To use artificial intelligence to serve Africa, Mandla provides easy solutions for learning African languages. New York, New York--(Newsfile Corp. - October 18, 2022) - Today, an artificial ...

All African languages must be respected; there are no languages greater than others. More resources have indeed been given to some languages than to others. We must work to advance unity by asserting ...

A summit of African leaders was thrown into confusion when Mozambique's president addressed the meeting in an African language - Swahili. Officials scrambled around looking for interpreters and ...

Surely, since Africa harbors 1,500 languages today, it was big enough to harbor more than four ancestral languages in the past. But all those other languages must have disappeared, either because the ...

As part of its plans to leverage technology to preserve African languages, Mandla dictionary translates words into 100 languages for a start New York, New York--(Newsfile Corp. - October 20, 2022 ...

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o: They were not written as a trilogy, but I suppose one can call them a trilogy in a broad sense of the word. For instance, the language question figures prominently in all ...

A novel, worker-owned cooperative serving the language needs of New York City’s growing African immigrant community from within is officially up and running. Afrilingual claims to be the first ...

And though there are an estimated 2,000-plus "living languages" across Africa, the lyrics for all seven nominated songs are either entirely in English or largely contain English words.

As AI giants duel, the Global South builds its own brainpower Researchers across Africa, Asia and the Middle East are building their own language models designed for local tongues, cultural nuance ...