Article · 8 min read · Lagos
Why African language models need local infrastructure
English-first stacks break on tone, code-switching, and low-resource languages. The fix is infrastructure, not another fine-tune.
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Nokanda AI
Infrastructure for African language models
Most AI products still assume English as the default interface. Across African markets that assumption fails in production — not in demos.
Nokanda is building speech and language infrastructure for those markets: models, evaluation, and deployment paths that respect local language reality.