AI has officially moved from “tech topic” to “everyday infrastructure.” The shift didn’t happen because AI was suddenly invented; it happened because it became usable. When powerful systems started ...

Google is rolling out support for 13 African languages across its AI-powered search features, expanding access to tools such as AI Overviews and AI Mode for millions of users across the continent. For ...

Google has expanded its AI Overviews and AI Mode search tools to support 13 African languages in addition to English, giving millions of users across the continent the ability to explore, learn, and ...

The 13 languages were selected based on strong and growing search usage across the continent. (Image: Supplied) Google is rolling out support for 13 African languages across its AI-powered search ...

For decades, the internet has had a language problem. Its architecture, its logic, its defaults have been shaped by many dominant tongues, and everyone else was left to adapt. In Sub-Saharan Africa, a ...

Python still holds the top ranking in the monthly Tiobe index of programming language popularity, leading by more than 10 percentage points over second-place C. But Python’s popularity actually has ...

Across universities, laboratories, think tanks and policy institutions worldwide, these African scholars are producing work that bridges theory and practice, informing academic debate, government ...

From the air, Accra unfurls as a restless sprawl of concrete, coastline and colour. Glass-fronted banks and diplomatic missions sit just minutes from canoe-lined beaches, where fishing nets dry under ...

Efekta has launched a new initiative aimed at improving English proficiency and communication among teachers and students at secondary schools across Somalialand, Ethiopia, Rwanda and Kenya. Efekta ...

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 ...

In early 2023, Álvaro Soto was looking for Las doce figuras del mundo, a short story co-written by one of his favourite authors, Jorge Luis Borges. To track down the book in which the story was ...

Over the past six months the realignment of global priorities and increasingly turbulent external conditions have continued to test sub-Saharan Africa. Yet the region’s economies are proving resilient ...