AI is moving faster than any field in history; but Africa risks becoming a passive consumer of tools built elsewhere. Randall ...

Google adds African languages to AI search tools By Staff Writer, ITWebJohannesburg, 06 Mar 2026The 13 languages were selected based on strong and growing search usage across the continent. (Image: ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Even though South Africa remains a highly popular destination spot for most travelers, very few people grab the opportunity to learn Zulu, which is among the nation’s official languages. This likely ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...