Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Kiswahili’s role as a prominent symbolic and practical language in Africa is the result of multiple factors. These range from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thursday, Google announced that Google Translate, its multilingual neural machine translation service, has begun offering the ...

Between April 20 to May 22, 2020, Global Voices sub-Saharan Africa in conjunction with Rising Voices hosted a Twitter conversation as part of the project, “The identity matrix: Platform regulation of ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Siri or Google Assistant are developed by the global north and trained in English, Chinese or European languages. In comparison, African ...

Swahili, also known as Kiswahili, is widely spoken throughout East Africa and serves as a lingua franca in several countries including Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Mozambique, and the ...

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, ...

The data-labelling industry relies heavily on workers in Kenya and Nigeria to annotate what AI systems learn. Those same workers rarely see their languages reflected in the systems they help train.

The Songs of Africa Ensemble – an eclectic multicultural ensemble including singers, drummers, string trio and bass – is the next featured concert in the Intercultural Music Initiative Concert Series.

Being a native English speaker is one of the major, often overlooked, advantages of contemporary working life. For a number of professions, technical expertise isn’t enough unless it’s accompanied by ...