‘In the Labs, in the Code, in the Data’: NWU’s Language Media Centre Turns Ten With a Challenge on AI

African languages will not survive by being preserved in books, archives and cultural memory alone. They have to be used — in news media, science and public life — and built into the data and AI systems that will shape how information moves. That was the central argument at North-West University’s Indigenous Language Media in Africa research entity as it marked ten years with a two-day symposium at the Birchwood Hotel and OR Tambo Conference Centre in Kempton Park on 25 and 26 August, held under