Research

African AI research, themes, and labs

A growing index of African AI research — open, reproducible, and rooted in real problems.

Research themes

NLPSpeech AIComputer VisionAgriculture AIHealth AIEducation AIResponsible AIClimate AIIndigenous KnowledgeGovernance & PolicyLow-resource AIParticipatory AI

Papers

Quality at a Glance: African NLP Datasets

Kreutzer et al. · TACL 2022

Reproducible

MasakhaNER 2.0: African NER

Adelani et al. · EMNLP 2022

Reproducible

AfroLM: Self-active learning for African languages

Dossou et al. · ACL 2023

Reproducible

InkubaLM: small multilingual LM

Lelapa AI · 2024

Reproducible

AfriSpeech-200

Olatunji et al. · 2023

Reproducible

Participatory ML in low-resource settings

Nekoto et al. · 2020

Reproducible