Vukosi Marivate

Africa has thousands of languages. Can AI be trained on all of them? | CNN For many African languages there are few written resources online that can be used to train AI. The African Next Voices project is trying to change that by recording underrepresented languages and cre...

Excited about my first feature in CNN! I shared my thoughts on the underrepresentation of African languages in AI models alongside some of my favorite colleagues in the African AI ecosystem, Nyalleng Moorosi and Vukosi Marivate.

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Thank you to Vukosi Marivate, Chijioke Okorie, and Melissa Omino, as well as members of the CC board of directors for convening these dialogues and sharing their perspectives with us at Creative Commons.

Images: Textile fragments, 3rd–4th century, CC0, The Met.

What can AI teach us about ourselves?

Professor Vukosi Marivate is building AI that understands African languages — protecting culture, identity, and belonging in the digital age.

#TAIKinspires #AIinAfrica #DataScience #AfricanInnovation #LanguageTechnology #STEMAfrica #ArtificialIntelligence

Ensuring Safe AI: Monitoring Agents to Bridge the Global Assurance Gap This session will explore how real-time monitoring and threshold-based safety frameworks can govern AI agents at scale. It will examine practical approaches ...

My 3rd Panel at the #IndiaAIImpactSummit <> Ensuring Safe AI: Monitoring Agents to Bridge the Global Assurance Gap

The Quiet Rise of African Intelligence: Eight Africans Join UN AI Panel Eight African AI experts join a UN global panel, signaling Africa’s rise from technology adopter to architect shaping AI’s future

The Quiet Rise of African Intelligence: Eight Africans Join UN AI Panel

Collaborating to Scale AI Adoption in the Global South This session will focus on translating responsible artificial intelligence principles into practical governance and implementation frameworks across the Glob...

My first panel at the India AI Impact Summit with friends and collaborators<> Collaborating to Scale AI Adoption in the Global South www.youtube.com/live/NrnpxpT...

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Geek Heresy After a decade designing technologies meant to address education, health, and global poverty, award-winning computer scientist Kentaro Toyama came to a diffi...

My holiday read for December 2025 has been Kentaro Toyama's Geek Heresy

It’s not perfect, but it’s an honest snapshot of what can happen when we come together and meet ideas at the right moment.

The 15 years leading to my own 40-minute talk were a winding road of obstacles, triumphs, and shared sacrifice. None of this would have been possible without the support of family, friends, colleagues, and collaborators who walked this journey with me.

YouTube video by Data Science for Social Impact (DSFSI) Beyond the Symbols: Natural Language Processing as an Adaptive Problem - Prof. Vukosi Marivate

One highlight of my 2025 retrospective was delivering my inaugural lecture. I still remember watching Prof Tshilidzi Marwala give his at Wits when I was a student, that sense of occasion never left me.

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The Deep Learning Indaba in Kigali, Rwanda has been a great experience!

I feel honored that I was invited to give a talk at the NeuroAI workshop and join the panel discussion🧠🤖

I’m leaving with new ideas, new perspectives, and new colleagues and friends 🌍

@deeplearningindaba.bsky.social

"Indaba means 'gathering' in Zulu, and Deep Learning Indaba, where we’re meeting, is an annual AI conference where Africans present their research and technologies they’ve built." Learn what happened there: buff.ly/8fGjEMO

💀👻 Literally stealing money from the hands of the most needy. <> Children with cancer scammed out of millions fundraised for their treatment, BBC finds www.bbc.com/news/article...

This session explores the current state of AI strategies and policies across Africa. ExpThis session explores the current state of AI strategies and policies across Africa. Experts discuss the… AI Policy in Africa Panel Keynote

Watch the AI Policy in Africa Panel Keynote from the 2025 Deep Learning Indaba. We discussed the progress different countries are making, key challenges, and what is needed to build responsible, inclusive, and impactful AI ecosystems across the continent.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnWA...

Large language models are biased — local initiatives are fighting for change Despite advances, AI models continue to be geared towards the needs of English-speaking people in high-income countries.

Large language models are biased — local initiatives are fighting for change

Tourism TIDES brings monthly conversations with innovators and change-makers shaping African tourism through data, AI, and collaboration. Episode 4 – Building Africa’s Data & AI Future In this… Nova SBE| TIDES Videocast Episode 4 – Building Africa’s Data & AI Future with Prof. Vukosi Marivate

Nova SBE| TIDES Videocast Episode 4 – Building Africa’s Data & AI Future with Prof. Vukosi Marivate

Read G20 the South Africa Summit: Leaders’ Declaration

Of importance in the screenshot of the AI part of the declaration. We had a lot of hard work at the Digital Economy Working Group and AI Task Force, congratulations to everyone.

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#G20SouthAfrica

Read G20 the South Africa Summit: Leaders’ Declaration

Of importance in the screenshot of the AI part of the declaration. We had a lot of hard work at the Digital Economy Working Group and AI Task Force, congratulations to everyone.

dirco.gov.za/g20-south-af...

#G20SouthAfrica

Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are stored | CNN Business The Internet Archive is preserving the web one page at a time, a job that’s more critical than ever as the internet evolves in the age of AI.

Inside the old church where one trillion webpages are stored | CNN Business edition.cnn.com/2025/11/16/t...

Honoring the Legacy of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o at Lanfrica - Lanfrica Blog The legacy of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, alongside that of many African scholars, has profoundly shaped our perspectives of our language and culture in a post-colonial world. This blog is a homage: a tribute…

Honoring the Legacy of Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o at Lanfrica - Lanfrica Blog

At #AfriCHI2025, our lead @vukosi.bsky.social asked a the question:
👉🏾 Do Africans really want chatbots?

For us at, it’s a reminder that Africa’s AI future isn’t just about building smarter systems, it’s about building technologies that listen, understand our languages, and reflect our values.
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A major part of computational history unearthed<> Unix v4 Tape Found | discuss.systems/@ricci/11550...

ASUS Ascent GX10｜Desktop AI supercomputer｜ASUS Global Desktop personal AI supercomputer with 1petaflop performance. Powered by NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell from DGX Spark. Compact, efficient for AI developers.

Let's see if this form factor of compute will take off. We just received a DGX spark last week at DSFSI. Thank you to NVIDIA for the research grant.

Now this -> Asus Ascent GX10 |

Back in Cairo after 20 years. Attending and talking at AfriCHI 2025 (1st AfriCHI since the inaugural one in Nairobi). African AI won't build itself, and it won't be built without Human Computer Interaction researchers!

The missing slide from my Keynote this morning at African Research Universities Alliance Biennial Conference @ARUA_News inspired by Tshwane Mayor @nasiphim

You can watch the keynote here youtube.com/live/kalkMuv...

A trust mindset can spur effective data protection – and put people at the center of DPI and AI. Across Africa, governments are racing to harness the power of data and DPI to deliver faster, smarter, and more inclusive public services. Yet, within this race lies a delicate balancing act. Such…

A trust mindset can spur effective data protection – and put people at the center of DPI and AI.

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The continental assignment takes me to Uganda at Makerere (finally!!) this morning and honouring the invitation to give a Keynote talk on AI and the Grassroots in the African continent. For those on campus today. I am around until late afternoon.