Datasets
AfriHate Hate Speech Datasets vs MasakhaNEWS
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Category
Datasets
Datasets
Type
Language / NLP
Language / NLP
Country
🌍 Pan-African
🌍 Pan-African
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Pricing
Free / open
Free / CC-BY-NC 4.0
Verified
Unverified
Verified
Last verified
5 Jul 2026
5 Jul 2026
Tags
nlp, african-languages, hate-speech, abusive-language, twitter
nlp, african-languages, text-classification, news, topic-classification
Summary
Multilingual collection of hate speech and abusive language datasets covering 15 African languages, built from tweets annotated by native speakers. Each instance carries labels from 3 to 4 annotators with anonymous annotator IDs, downloadable on HuggingFace. Published at NAACL 2025.
News-topic-classification dataset for 16 widely spoken African languages (incl. Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Nigerian Pidgin), ~31,088 rows in CSV/Parquet with train/val/test splits across seven topic categories. Built by the Masakhane community.