The African Next Voices project has started out with sites in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa. Iuliia Anisimova/iStock Language is how we interact, ask for help, and hold meaning in community. We use ...

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) - Computers have become amazingly precise at translating spoken words to text messages and scouring huge troves of information for answers to complex questions. At least, that is, ...

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 ...

A language is an inescapable tool for communication and, words are one of the tools of expression. Even if it is impossible to dissociate language and culture, it is possible, even though difficult, ...

What are the most popular African languages? Africa has a wide population with at least 75 languages having more than one million speakers. These languages are grouped into four: Niger-Congo, ...

Russell H Kaschula receives research funding from the National Research Foundation (NRF) and such funding is gratefully acknowledged. A history lecturer teaching a class about the history of the Xhosa ...

The EAC is made up of five countries, namely Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. South Sudan’s application to join the community is still being considered by member states. Swahili is already ...

If the technologically-advanced countries of the developed world were to introduce stringent trade agreements against countries, which do not have the technological knowhow to power their economies, ...

Computers have become amazingly precise at translating spoken words to text messages and scouring huge troves of information for answers to complex questions. At least, that is, so long as you speak ...