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Orange is working with OpenAI and Meta to build custom AI models that can understand West African languages not understood by most conversational systems. To start with, the telco giant will roll out ...

The tech giant Google announced that 15 more African languages would be added to Voice Search, Gboard talk-to-type, and Translate dictation on October 28. The languages included are Chichewa, Hausa, ...

The French, English, Portuguese and Spanish colonisers violently imposed their languages on the African population; languages which are still used in the vast majority of institutions on the continent ...

It’s 50 years since the Soweto uprising in South Africa. On 16 June 1976, tens of thousands of young black South Africans protested against being taught in the Afrikaans language (alongside English) ...

The question of whether contemporary African writers still uphold autochthony, the preservation, promotion and representation ...

A North-West University study is developing multilingual AI that can detect misinformation in English, isiZulu and Sepedi, ...

UJ introduces African languages to its chatbot By Staff Writer, ITWebJohannesburg, 13 Aug 2026The University of Johannesburg introduces African languages to its chatbot, MoUJi. The University of ...