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-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.
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.