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Paul Azunre Is Building AI for Ghanaian Languages —And It’s Not Been An Easy Journey

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Ghana aims to become Africa's AI hub by 2029, according to Communications Minister Samuel Nartey George. The government plans to review and update the existing AI strategy. Meanwhile, Dr. Paul Azunre's Ghana NLP project is developing AI language tools for Ghanaian languages, facing funding challenges and corporate exploitation. Despite obstacles, Ghana NLP has created machine translation systems for several African languages, impacting healthcare, education, and startups across the continent.

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