Africa has over 2,000 languages. Most AI systems know fewer than 10. AFRICORPUS exists to close that gap — preserving the continent's cultural memory and building the AI infrastructure that speaks Africa's truth.
Every two weeks, a language dies somewhere in the world. In Africa, the pace of cultural loss is accelerating. Modernisation, conflict, and a near-total absence of digital infrastructure are erasing what took millennia to build.
Over 300 African languages are classified as endangered. When a language disappears, entire systems of botanical knowledge, legal tradition, and cosmology go with it — irretrievably.
Museums across the continent hold millions of objects with minimal documentation. Without digitisation, artifacts deteriorate without record. Their stories exist only in ageing memory.
Sacred ceremonies, performance arts, and oral histories are held by ageing custodians. Once they are gone, the knowledge will not be lost — it will simply cease to exist.
Global AI systems trained predominantly on Western data fail African users in translation, speech recognition, and cultural reasoning. Africa is being written out of the intelligence revolution.
We are actively building partnerships with institutions and communities who share our conviction.
The work speaks for itself. If you are a researcher, an institution, a community custodian, or someone who simply believes Africa's story deserves to be told in full — we would like to hear from you. There are no forms here. Just a conversation, when you are ready.
