Datasets
AfriQA 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 / CC-BY-SA 4.0
Free / CC-BY-NC 4.0
Verified
Verified
Verified
Last verified
24 Jun 2026
24 Jun 2026
Tags
nlp, african-languages, question-answering, cross-lingual, open-retrieval
nlp, african-languages, text-classification, news, topic-classification
Summary
Cross-lingual open-retrieval question-answering dataset with human-translated QA pairs for 10 African languages (incl. Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba), totaling 12,159 examples across train/validation/test splits. From the Masakhane initiative.
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.