Technology for African Languages in the Digital Age: An Interdisciplinary Approach

We will examine African languages in digital technology when education & communication is becoming dependent on AI as well as the impact of language technology on daily life & how integrating African languages into digital technology promotes inclusivity, allowing languages to thrive in digital orality & mainstream spaces. Topics range from typology of African languages, structure of Bantu languages, Swahili as a lingua franca of Eastern Africa, & NLP concepts & applications i.e. search engines, speech processing, text classification, machine translation, information extraction & recommendation systems.