@DigiAfricanLang 2021

Schedule

(Click on the host's name to read a Q&A blog post)

April 6-12, 2021

Sadik Shahadu (@Sadike25)

Sadik Shahadu is based in Accra, Ghana. In addition to being a co-founder of the Dagbani Wikimedians User Group, a Mozilla Open Leaders X fellow and a Mozfest wrangler for Mozilla Festival 2021, he also serves as a regional ambassador for indigenous communities at Art and Feminism. In early 2021, over 4,000 Dagbani words were recorded and uploaded to Wikimedia Commons as part of a campaign to raise the visibility of the language.

April 13-19, 2021

Blessing Sibanda ( @banQomania)

I am a software engineer and researcher. I am currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Computer Science at Namibia University of Science and Technology. My research interests are in Computer Vision and natural language processing (NLP). I am part of Masakhane, where I am conducting NLP research on low-resource languages, specifically concentrating on my native language Shona. I have been particularly involved in the machine translation and named-entity recognition (NER) initiatives for Shona.

April 20-26, 2021

Paulin Melatagia ( @melatagia)

April 27-May 3, 2021

Mohammed Sadat Abdulai ( @masssly)

May 4-10, 2021

Kathleen Siminyu ( @siminyu_kat)

May 11-17, 2021

Njeri Wangarĩ ( @kenyanpoet)