Imagine building an African startup, and your first reference point is Silicon Valley. The tone, the branding, the pitch ...

A Nigerian Visual Artist, Yele Akin-Johnson is at the forefront of global digital culture by re-imagining African visual language in a global digital economy. Akin-Johnson is working at the porous ...

How do you teach somebody to read a language if there’s nothing for them to read? This is the problem facing developers across the African continent who are trying to train AI to understand and ...

Eight African penguins hatched at the Maryland Zoo during the recent breeding season, adding to the population of the critically endangered animal, officials said Monday. The zookeepers have chosen to ...

The R language for statistical computing has creeped back into the top 10 in Tiobe’s monthly index of programming language popularity. “Programming language R is known for fitting statisticians and ...

FIFA looks back at some of the highlights of the African qualifiers for the FIFA World Cup 2026, including Cabo Verde's epic achievement. Each of the last seven editions of the FIFA World Cup™ has ...

A dearth of African-language content is delaying the uptake of artificial intelligence on the continent, compounding a lack of access to the technology, according to mobile industry body GSMA. The ...

A Kenyan entrepreneur who designed an app that translates speech into sign language using AI-powered 3D avatars has won a major award for African innovation. “Think of it as Google Translate for sign ...

Vukosi Marivate is a Co-Founder of Lelapa AI. DSFSI is funded by the Gates Foundation, Meta, Google.org, ABSA (for the ABSA UP Chair of Data Science). Vukosi is a co-founder of the Deep Learning ...

Mohamed Amoura, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Jordan Ayew, Kei Kamara and Mohamed Salah feature alongside amazing feats from Côte d’Ivoire, Morocco and Tunisia. Cabo Verde, with a population of around ...

Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages? When Kenneth Wehr started ...

Researchers are trying to bridge the access gap for non-English speaking Africans using AI by releasing the largest known dataset of African languages. The African Next Voices project collected 9,000 ...