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Masakhane

African NLP datasets, including Wolof

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Last verified: 1 October 2026

Masakhane is a grassroots NLP community for Africa, by Africans. It brings together over 1,000 participants from more than 30 countries and runs machine translation, named entity recognition and question answering projects.

Services
  • Masakhane MT (machine translation)
  • MasakhaNER (named entity recognition)
  • MakerereNLP and NaijaNLP
  • Question answering and multimodal translation
Access requirements

Open membership through the Slack workspace or mailing list, by accepting the Code of Conduct.

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