One of Africa's biggest countries has demoted French as its official language in favour of a native West African language.

Its origins lie in the Swahili language, but Africa isn’t the only place to enjoy a safari. On the other side of the planet, ...

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South Africa has called on the Group of 20 (G20 ... both of these have serious gaps. One glaring gap is the linguistic and cultural diversity deficit in AI systems. “This linguistic inequity is not ...

The Niger military administration has formally declared Hausa the country’s new national language, which is a departure from its colonial past in which French was given more prominence. The move was ...

Miss Deaf Africa 2021, Josephine Kiden, has called on South Sudanese to learn sign language to increase the participation of the deaf community in nation-building. Kiden decried the communication ...

South Africa has called on the Group of Twenty ... One glaring gap is the linguistic and cultural diversity deficit in AI systems. "This linguistic inequity is not just a cultural loss; it's ...

Much has been made of Africa’s gaming landscape in recent years, with it seen as being on the rise from a player perspective, but the same cannot be said of African game developers. We hear ...

South Africa has called on the Group of Twenty (G20 ... both of these have serious gaps. One glaring gap is the linguistic and cultural diversity deficit in AI systems. “This linguistic inequity is ...

Bonobos’ grunts, peeps and whistles may share an advanced linguistic property with human language ...

Yet, of the human genomes studied so far, only 2% have been those of Africans. Yemaachi Biotech company in Ghana is addressing that through its Africa Cancer Atlas, partnering with groups across ...