Beyond the Big Four: Enriching Nigeria’s AI language diversity, By Joshua Olufemi

According to a report by Random News Portal… …investment in Nigerian language AI currently prioritises the “Big Four” — Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo, and Pidgin English. While these cover tens of millions of speakers, they risk reinforcing linguistic dominance and silencing another 50–70 million Nigerians whose lives are rooted in other languages. AI could unintentionally become the next tool of internal colonisation, through which […]
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