The new course, part of the Freshman Seminars program, focuses on the issues and challenges around increasing the representation of African languages in LLMs.

An app enables learners to listen to sentences spoken by a computer-generated voice and create sentences with help from a ...

With her first solo Grammy award nomination, Nigerian sensation Yemi Alade is getting the recognition she’s worked so hard for.

With over 12 million speakers, Zulu is widely spoken in South Africa, yet mastering it posessignificant challenges.

Slowly but surely, linguistic communities are benefiting from initiatives to promote local languages. A French–Ewe dictionary ...

“I wanted to communicate, so I decided to make versions of my songs (in other languages ... and Kidjo on “African Woman.” The latter, Alade says, was one of the most challenging and ...

The largest Hindu temple and cultural complex in the southern hemisphere was unveiled in Johannesburg Sunday with scores of ...

Kagame's comments clearly suggested that he wants South Africa to back off from DR Congo, where its military involvement dates back to the late 1990s. It first joined the UN's peacekeeping mission, ...

A glimpse of life after the siege in the eastern Congolese city of Goma, as some semblance of a tenuous peace returns, as does the fear of reprisals.

The East African country Eritrea has been named a ‘mini Italy’, and with their close links within history, it’s no surprise. In 1890, Eritrea became an Italian colony and was the main base for the ...