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Language Justice in the Age of AI
A Framework for Building NLP Systems Across Africa's 2,000+ Languages
Africa is home to over 2,000 living languages, yet fewer than 20 are meaningfully supported by mainstream artificial intelligence platforms. This paper presents a technical and policy framework for building natural language processing (NLP) systems that serve low-resource African...
Language Justice in the Age of AI
May 2026
Latest Research
Technical papers, policy analysis, and applied research from the TNG team - published openly for the African technology community.
From Statute to Screen
How AI is Democratising Access to Law in Nigeria
This paper documents TNG's Lagos Law Translation Project and proposes a national framework for AI-assisted legal translation across Nigeria's 36 states.
Digital Public Infrastructure for African Governments
Lessons from Nigeria's Emerging Technology Stack
This paper examines the architectural principles behind successful DPI deployments and proposes a phased infrastructure roadmap for Nigerian government agencies.
Ethical AI Design for Low-Resource Language Contexts
Principles and Practice in Sub-Saharan Africa
This paper examines the unique ethical challenges of deploying AI in Sub-Saharan African contexts and proposes seven design principles for building culturally grounded AI systems.
Cloud-Native Architecture for Government Platforms in Africa
A Kubernetes Production Guide
This paper documents the architectural decisions TNG made in designing a production EKS cluster for a state-government AI platform, providing a replicable reference architecture for government cloud deployments.
GovTech Africa
A Policy and Implementation Framework for AI Adoption in Public Sector Organisations
This paper proposes a five-stage AI adoption framework designed for African public sector organisations, with case material from Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and Rwanda.
Open Data and Civic Technology in West Africa
Building Infrastructure for Accountable Governance
This paper maps the open data ecosystem across ECOWAS member states and presents a civic technology stack designed for durability, local hosting, and community governance.
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