New research from @GhanaNLP & @UNICEFinnovate - powered by Khaya AI 🙌 Check it out!!

Happy to have worked with @UNICEFinnovate on Voice AI for Adolescent Health in West Africa. For the culture, and all that 💪🏽

An Explainer for Kenya's choice in 2027, explained in Kiswahili - Africa's Most Popular Language with our Next Generation TTS. Let us know you thoughts on the quality as we finish this model up for release throughout our API and mobile app ecosystem! 🤗

🇬🇭 Ghana is proposing to change parts of the 1992 Constitution, & a referendum is planned. Most of what's out there is in English. Everyone should be able to follow it in their own language. So Khaya AI made an explainer: what's proposed, how a referendum works... Twi version

This paper presents an end-to-end study of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for adolescent health communication in three Ghanaian languages (Twi, Dagbani, and Ewe). arxiv.org/abs/2609.29798v1

Most AI tools weren’t built with West and Central Africa in mind. Through #AIinPlay, @UNICEF and @Arm are backing frontier-tech @GhanaNLP, @ROBOTSMALI1 and #GoAICorp start-ups to train models in local languages, turning real speech from villages into tools tested in classrooms. Learn more ➡️ unicef.org/innovation/storie…

This is our Engineer Hikma Hamza testing the @KhayaAI Voice Assistant in Ewe. You can chat with it right now! Glad to be playing a small role in mentoring future leaders like Hikma in this important space 😊😊

Bold Vision from our Spinout @KhayaAI 🙌

Also cool shxt is likely not sexy too build at the start so it evades many. When @GhanaNLP started researching local language models there was almost no data, no funding, no compute, no help. You couldn't do it in a weekend or a month. Years later there's sth cool to display

Email the address at the following link with an intro and what you are trying to learn: ghananlp.org/contact

Share links to Nonprofits you recommend. I will put @GhanaNLP info in comments for anyone interested (got quite a few DMs about it)

Over past year, @GhanaNLP & @KhayaAI have been working closely w @UNICEF to ensure our cultural heritage is preserved through our languages We were honored to attend the 1st AI Summit in Dakar last month to discuss progress We were represented by our researcher @NanaBE15👊🏾

I published "#Ghana at the Crossroads of the AI Revolution: My Thoughts and the Power of Homegrown #African AI on @Medium. medium.com/p/ghana-at-the-cr… #MightyAfrican #ArtificialIntelligence @GIMPA_Greenhill @GhanaNLP @snwolley @abena_ai #AfricanAI #AfricanTech

Most mathematicians choose one problem and spend a career solving it. Stephen Moore(@moorekwesi) looked at Africa's most urgent problems and decided all of them were math problems. He was not wrong. Born in Saltpond, Ghana. BSc Mathematics with distinction from KNUST. Then two master's degrees in Europe, one from Kaiserslautern, one from Johannes Kepler University Linz, where he stayed to complete his PhD in Computational Mathematics. He was being shaped by the finest applied mathematics institutions on the continent, and then choosing to come back. That choice is the whole story. Because Stephen did not return to teach and wait. He returned to build infrastructure that Ghana did not yet know it needed. He joined @GhanaNLP and became Director of Programs. What started as a quiet research initiative became the engine behind @KhayaAI, Africa's first AI translation tool for Ghanaian languages. His team published what is now the largest Ghana language dataset ever released online: 41,513 parallel sentence pairs across Twi, Fante, Ewe, Ga, and Kusaal. Not proprietary. Public. So every researcher, every developer, every language technology builder in the world could access it freely. He was not building a product. He was building a floor for everyone else to build on. Then came the grants. Google Research, twice. Over USD 95,000 to advance multilingual and multimodal work for global health. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, for AfriMed-QA, a pan-African medical question-answering benchmark. USD 100,000. The British Council. A collaboration with University College London worth GBP 150,000 for AI solutions to humanitarian challenges. The world kept arriving at his door. He kept answering and routing everything back to Cape Coast. His research now spans computational mathematics, mathematical epidemiology, machine learning, and African language AI. Forty-plus published papers. Collaborations with INRIA in France, University of L'Aquila in Italy, where he is a Visiting Professor. The National University of Singapore invited him to a joint ASEAN-Africa workshop on computational mathematics. He was one of ten Africans in the room. He is also the person who set up a formal exchange program so that mathematics graduate students from the University of Cape Coast can spend a semester in L'Aquila studying at the highest level. Six students have gone so far. More are going. He teaches, supervises, publishes, builds, and then builds the pathway so others can follow. At the 2025 Global AI Summit on Africa in Kigali, Stephen stood at Booth 18 and demonstrated Khaya AI to the world. The tool that started in a research group at a Ghanaian university was now being shown on a continental stage. @moorekwesi is proof that the most powerful thing a mathematician can do is refuse to separate the theoretical from the practical, and refuse to separate their success from their community. ` The equations were never just on paper. They were always about the people.

Most Ghanaians don't know the legendary status of @pazunre. Let me share a short story. While working at Google, a colleague, whom I had just met that week, scheduled for us to have lunch to get to know more about what we each did at work. During our conversation at lunch, I got to find out he was a team lead for some projects covering Google translate. He spoke of the complexity getting their AI engines to understand the nuances embedded in translating African languages. Knowing the momentous work @pazunre is doing with @GhanaNLP and Khaya app, I mentioned that I had a friend who had built an app for Ghanaian languages, and was expanding to other countries; he went to MIT and had a PhD. My colleague interjected with, "is it Paul? With the Khaya App?". My colleague then mentioned that indeed Khaya App had the best translation on the market for Ghanaian languages and that Paul is someone who has an incredible reputation amongst the AI, ML research scientists at Google. They knew who he was. And had such reverence for him. This guy spoke of Dr. Pushkin and @moorekwesi like some legends in the game. That was a very proud Ghanaian moment for me. Where am I going with all this? Let's leverage such brains as a country. Cos others have seen what they have to offer and are seriously considering of poaching them.There many like Dr. Pushkin n Dr. Moore out there who can help shape the future fortunes of Ghana. #GhanaMoments

Volunteers can make a change when no one else steps up, and can inspire and motivate the whole community into action. Thank you for your work Buzz Stop Boys 👏🏾

We benchmarked 43 Ghanaian languages across 19 existing LLMs. We can tell which LLMs are perform best in which language. In the process, we have trained over 10 volunteers on benchmarking techniques. Join to learn about LLMs. arxiv.org/abs/2605.04208 @GhanaNLP @KhayaAI @pazunre

Day5 of #AIEthics - Communities building Responsible AI. Communities are the backbone of responsible AI. These groups are fighting bias, shaping policy, and building inclusive AI across Africa. They have shaped how I think, ask questions, and show up in this space. @AJLUnited