The rise of external AI giants underscores the urgency of developing homegrown language models that reflect Africa’s ...

As South Africa is buffeted by criticism from President Donald Trump and other American conservatives—some of it unfair and ...

The new Eastern African Practical Chinese Textbook Series, launched on Friday, is the first Mandarin language series aligned ...

The 24-year-old Portuguese-German actor moves naturally between cultures, languages, and identities, drawing on experiences ...

Opportunity cards, migration agreements, a so-called "Consular Service Portal": All these measures combined are supposed to ...

Black people have gotten used to being treated like shit — at school, at work, everywhere. [It] is systemic. And unless we speak about it, nothing will change.” ...

Policymakers’ hopes that Africa would replace India and the Philippines as the world’s back office have not been realised.

For Swiss German, by contrast, there is “insufficient data” currently available. The language encompasses a wide range of ...

When I began working on colonial-era sound archives about 20 years ago, I was stunned by what I heard from African speakers, especially the critique and the alternative versions of colonial history.

African prisoners in German camps were studied by ethnographers, who recorded their voices. What they had to say is poignant ...

Single-figure languages filling out the remainder of the list include German and Swahili, which tie with six countries each; and both Russian (Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia) and Italian ...

Amon Kipruto, a 22-year-old Kenyan, recently came forward. In an interview with Kenya’s Citizen TV, he admitted to selling his kidney to lift himself out of poverty. He said a friend had introduced ...