Afrique.ai
Community-tested models

AI models for African languages

Does it actually work for Wolof, Bambara, Lingala or Darija? Benchmarks rarely say. The community tests these models on real speech and text — and reports back.

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TunBERT

InstaDeep + iCompass

Other
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tunisian-arabic

First Tunisian Arabic BERT.

Hugging Face

DarijaBERT

SI2M Lab INSEA + AIOX Labs

Other
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darija

BERT model for Moroccan Darija (~100M tokens).

Hugging Face

AfroLM

B. Dossou et al.

Other
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bambarafonlingalamooreswahiliwolof

Masked language model covering 23 languages.

Hugging Face

AfriBERTa-large

Castorini (Ogueji et al.)

Other
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swahili

Masked language model; Swahili plus 10 other languages.

Hugging Face

AfroXLMR-large-76L

Davlan (D. Adelani et al.)

Other
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wolofbambaralingalaswahilifrarabic

Masked language model covering Wolof, Bambara, Lingala, Swahili, French and Arabic variants.

Hugging Face

MasakhaNER (afroxlmr-large-ner)

Masakhane

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wolofbambarafonmooreswahili

Named-entity recognition covering 21 African languages.

Hugging Face