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WURA

Web-crawled Unsupervised Representation for Africa

language-modeling pretraining ~19GB Apache 2.0
Amharic Hausa Igbo Kinyarwanda +7 more

Malaria Cell Images

Parasitized vs Uninfected Blood Cell Images (NIH)

image-classification computer-vision 27,558 images (~339MB) Public Domain (NIH)
English (Metadata)

mC4 (African Subset)

Multilingual Colossal Cleaned Crawled Corpus

language-modeling pretraining Terabytes ODC-BY
Afrikaans Amharic Hausa Igbo +8 more

MasakhaNEWS

News Topic Classification for 16 African Languages

topic-classification language-modeling ~20,000 articles CC-BY-4.0
Amharic Hausa Igbo Luganda +5 more

KaraAgro AI Maize

Annotated Maize Disease Images from Ghana

object-detection image-classification 16,552 images (~1.5GB) CC0 1.0
English (Metadata)

NaijaVoices

Culturally Rich Nigerian Language Dataset

language-modeling asr 1,800 hours of speech CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Igbo Hausa Yoruba

MAFAND-MT

Machine Translation for 21 African Languages

machine-translation alignment ~5k-30k sentences per language CC-BY-4.0-NC
Bambara Ewe Fon Hausa +5 more

CC-100

Common Crawl Corpus for 100+ Languages

tokenization pretraining Massive (varies by language) Common Crawl Terms
Amharic Hausa Igbo Somali +4 more

FLORES-200

Professional Translations for 200 Languages

translation-evaluation embeddings 3,001 sentences per language CC-BY-SA 4.0
20+ African languages including Dinka, Nuer, Kanuri

Universal Dependencies

Grammar Annotation for African Languages

pos-tagging dependency-parsing Small, high-quality treebanks CC-BY-SA 4.0
Amharic Bambara Coptic Hausa +3 more

MasakhaNER 2.0

Named Entity Recognition for 20 African Languages

named-entity-recognition sequence-labeling ~9,000-10,000 sentences per language CC-BY-4.0-NC
Bambara Ewe Fon Hausa +12 more

AfriSenti

Sentiment Analysis for 14 African Languages

sentiment-analysis text-classification 110,000+ tweets CC-BY-4.0
Amharic Hausa Igbo Kinyarwanda +5 more

AfriHate

Hate Speech Detection for 15 African Languages

hate-speech-detection text-classification ~45,000 examples Apache 2.0
Algerian Arabic Amharic Hausa Igbo +8 more

Tunizi

Tunisian Arabizi Sentiment Analysis

sentiment-analysis text-classification ~3,000 sentences MIT
Tunisian Arabizi

AfriQA

Cross-lingual Question Answering for 10 African Languages

question-answering cross-lingual 12,000+ QA pairs CC-BY-4.0-NC
Bemba Fon Hausa Igbo +6 more

XL-Sum

Abstractive Summarization for African Languages

summarization text-generation 6k-7k pairs per language CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0
Amharic Hausa Igbo Kirundi +6 more

Belebele

Reading Comprehension for 122 Language Variants

reading-comprehension multiple-choice 900 questions per language CC-BY-SA 4.0
Bambara Wolof Yoruba Zulu +1 more

KenSwQuAD

Swahili Question Answering Dataset

question-answering 7,526 QA pairs CC-BY 4.0
Swahili

AfriInstruct

Instruction Tuning for African Languages

instruction-tuning fine-tuning Millions of tokens CC-BY-4.0
Hausa Igbo Yoruba Swahili +2 more

Inkuba Instruct

Multi-task Instruction Data by Lelapa AI

instruction-tuning multi-task 62M Swahili, 6M Yoruba samples CC BY-NC 4.0
Swahili Yoruba IsiXhosa Hausa +1 more

AfriMed-QA

Pan-African Medical Question Answering

medical-qa domain-adaptation 15,000+ QA pairs CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
English (African context)

Aya Dataset

Multilingual Instruction Dataset from Cohere

instruction-following multilingual 204k human annotations, millions translated Apache 2.0
65 languages including African LRLs

AfriStereo

African Stereotype Evaluation Dataset

bias-evaluation stereotypes ~5,000 pairs Open Source
English (African context) French

OASST1

OpenAssistant Conversations for RLHF

rlhf dialogue 161k messages Apache 2.0
35 languages (Multilingual)

SIB-200

Benchmark for 200+ Languages

topic-classification benchmarking Based on FLORES-200 CC-BY-SA 4.0
200+ including many African LRLs

AfriSpeech-200

Pan-African Speech Corpus

asr speech-recognition 200 hours CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
English (120 African accents)

Financial Inclusion in Africa

Bank Account Prediction Dataset

classification tabular ~33,000 rows Public (Zindi Terms)
English (Metadata)

African Climate Change

Temperature Data for 5 African Countries

time-series forecasting Daily records (1980-2023) Open
Numeric

CryCeleb

Infant Cry Analysis from Nigeria

audio-classification healthcare 6.5 hours, 786 infants CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Infant Cry (Audio)

GROW-Africa

African Crop Yield Data

regression yield-prediction 500,000+ observations Open Access
Numeric

AI4KSL

Kenyan Sign Language Dataset

sign-language-recognition computer-vision 20,000 videos Open Access (Research)
Kenyan Sign Language

Education in Africa

UNESCO African Education Statistics

data-analysis regression Tabular (Country-level) Apache 2.0
Numeric

OSCAR

Open Super-large Crawled Aggregated Corpus

language-modeling pretraining Millions of sentences CC0 1.0 (Metadata)
Amharic Somali Yoruba Malagasy +2 more

OPUS Parallel Corpora

Open Parallel Corpus Collection

machine-translation alignment Millions of sentence pairs Varies by sub-corpus (often open)
Xhosa Zulu Tswana Sotho +1 more

NaijaRC

Reading Comprehension for Nigerian Languages

reading-comprehension multiple-choice ~358 questions (Yoruba subset) CC-BY-NC 4.0
Hausa Igbo Yoruba

IrokoBench

Comprehensive Benchmark for African Languages

benchmarking evaluation Multiple evaluation sets CC-BY-4.0
Hausa Igbo Yoruba Swahili +2 more

South Africa Crop Type

Fused Sentinel-1/2 Imagery for Crop Mapping

semantic-segmentation data-fusion ~10GB CC BY 4.0
English (Metadata)

Ghana Croplands Agronomy

Biophysical & Yield Measurements for Northern Ghana Maize

regression yield-prediction <100MB CC BY 4.0
English (Metadata)

African Medical Records (OCR)

Nigerian Handwritten Clinical Records for OCR

ocr computer-vision <1K records CC-BY 4.0
English (Nigeria)

Nigerian Colposcopy Images

Cervical Cancer Screening Images from Nigeria

image-classification computer-aided-diagnosis 3,356 images CC BY-NC 4.0
English (Metadata)

Med-Convo-Nig

Simulated Nigerian-Accented Medical Consultations

asr speech-recognition 4.2 hours audio CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
English (Nigerian accent)

Snapshot Serengeti

Camera-Trap Wildlife Images from Tanzania

image-classification object-detection ~5TB full (use a subset) CDLA-Permissive-1.0
English (Metadata)

African Next Voices

Multilingual South African Speech (3000+ hrs)

asr speech-recognition 3,000+ hours CC BY 4.0
isiZulu isiXhosa Sesotho Setswana +3 more

Kencorpus

Kenyan Languages Corpus: Swahili, Dholuo, Luhya

machine-translation pos-tagging 5.6M words / 177 hours CC BY 4.0
Swahili Dholuo Luhya

Common Voice (Swahili & Hausa)

Crowdsourced Read Speech for African Languages

asr speech-recognition Swahili ~20GB; Hausa smaller CC0 1.0
Swahili Hausa