Children living in multilingual communities often learn in a language at school that does not match the language they speak at home. This mismatch makes it challenging for them to participate in ...

The French, English, Portuguese and Spanish colonisers violently imposed their languages on the African population; languages which are still used in the vast majority of institutions on the continent ...

From text-generating ChatGPT to voice-activated Siri, artificial intelligence-powered tools are designed to aid our everyday life—as long as you speak a language they support. These technologies are ...

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 ...