Africa’s Languages and AI

Harvard FAS

How can Africa’s languages shape AI? This seminar explores language, knowledge, and technologicalinvention through oral and written encounters, archives, and guided AI experiments. Studentsinvestigate the “low-resource” label; examine translation, speech, and tokenization; and studyAfrican AI production, public uses, markets, and ownership. Weekly Language Dome discussionsconnect evidence with questions of participation and possibility. No prior coding experience orknowledge of an African…