call-for-testers

We're looking for testers — try MasakhaneTool early

Calling annotators, students, and researchers to try MasakhaneTool, our open annotation platform for African languages, before v1 ships.

research

The Rise of AfricaNLP: 20 Years of Progress in One Paper

A new bibliometric survey maps two decades of African NLP research — 2.2K papers, 4.9K authors, and clear signals of where the field is heading.

Call for Chapters

Call for Chapters: Masakhane Playbook

The Masakhane community is opening a Call for Chapters for the Masakhane Playbook — a community-driven, open guide for building, evaluating, and deploying NLP systems for African languages. We invite researchers, practitioners, students, language experts, and community members to contribute chapters that shape how the next generation of African language technology is built.

Announcement

Welcome to the Masakhane Blog

This is the first post on the new Masakhane blog. We'll use this space to share community updates, calls for contribution, project milestones, and stories from teams building NLP for African languages.