The Gates Foundation and other donors from the AI for Development Funders Collaborative are pledging $10 million to ensure AI models are more inclusive of African languages. Devex spoke with ...

In a world increasingly driven by artificial intelligence (AI), Africa's rich linguistic diversity – encompassing over 2,000 languages – is increasingly facing the risk of being side-lined.

Language is a powerful tool—it connects, informs, and enables collaboration. Yet in corporate South Africa, it can also exclude, alienate, and suppress talent. Despite English being the de facto ...

Millions of years from now, northern Africa could be home to a new ocean, as tectonic plates pull apart along the East African Rift System, according to scientists. Experts have long known that ...

Leaders of Eastern and Southern African regional blocs met for an unprecedented joint summit on Saturday to find a solution to a conflict in eastern Congo, where Rwandan-backed rebels’ rapid ...

If you’ve ever taken a love language quiz, forwarded the results to your partner, and thought, Well, that should fix everything, you’re not alone. The concept of love languages—words of ...

Among them is Ngũgῖ wa Thiong'o from Kenya, an outspoken voice in the decolonization of African literature using African languages as a cornerstone for the preservation and promotion of indigenous ...

Though he has always been private compared to his other family members, Melania Trump told talk show host Larry King in 2010 that Barron Trump, who was then 4 years old, spoke three languages (at ...

Washington, DC — "Africa can expect substantial changes from the United States over the next four years," Rama Yade, director of the Atlantic Council's Africa Center, wrote in a pre-Inauguration ...

IT software firm Microsoft Developer Community VP Scott Hanselman demonstrated the use of an AI language model on a ... 2 400 AI startup companies in Africa, and about 22% of the population ...