MasakhaNER
Coverage: 20+ languages
Languages hub
AI Must Speak Africa
The future of AI in Africa cannot happen only in English, French, Arabic, or Portuguese. African Language AI — datasets, models, translation, speech, and benchmarks.
Featured languages
SwahiliYorubaIgboHausaAmharicZuluXhosaShonaKinyarwandaWolofTwiGaEweSomaliLingalaOromoBambaraTigrinyaFulfuldeSetswanaSesothoLugandaKikuyuPulaarTamazight
Datasets, models, and tools
Vulavula API
Coverage: 11 languages
AfriSpeech-200
Coverage: 200+ accents languages
Lanfrica
Coverage: All languages
Common Voice Africa
Coverage: 30+ languages
AfriBERTa
Coverage: 11 languages
Benchmark leaderboard
| Model | Task | Score |
|---|---|---|
| AfroLM-large | MasakhaNER | 84.2 F1 |
| Vulavula-MT | EN→Zulu BLEU | 31.7 |
| AfriBERTa-large | Topic class. | 82.4 |
| InkubaLM | Multilingual QA | 71.5 |