Letlhokwa Mpedi is principal and vice-chancellor at the University of Johannesburg. Thebe Ikalafeng is chancellor of Sol Plaatje University and…
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Piracy and unregulated artificial intelligence could threaten Botswana’s cultural identity and economic future if stronger protections for the creative industry…
University of Pretoria academic Vukosi Marivate has been awarded one of South Africa’s highest national honours for his contributions to…
The Kenya-based Masakhane African Languages Hub has joined forces with Microsoft AI for Good Lab, the Gates Foundation and Google.org…
A team of four Nigerian graduates under 25 is building Reedapt, an AI-powered dubbing and real-time multilingual streaming platform aimed…
The GSMA and French AI research company Pleias have released CommonLingua, an open-source language identification model covering 334 languages including…
The 2025 AI for African Languages Conference brought together researchers, practitioners, and innovators in natural language processing to address one…
At the Digital Africa Summit South Africa 2025, a high-stakes conversation unfolded on what it will take for Africa to…
The Institute for Inclusive Digital Africa (IIDIA) and Benin’s Agency for Information Systems and Digital Technology (ASIN) have launched a…
South Africa may lose top AI talent to global markets due to weak local demand for homegrown technology, warns Dr.…