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Lugha-Llama vs N-ATLaS
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Category
AI Resources
AI Resources
Type
LLM
LLM
Country
🌍 Pan-African
🇳🇬 Nigeria
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Pricing
Open weights (Llama 3.1 community license)
Open (research)
Verified
Unverified
Verified
Last verified
5 Jul 2026
24 Jun 2026
Tags
african-languages, swahili, low-resource, wura-corpus, llama-3.1
multilingual, llm, government-backed
Summary
Lugha-Llama is a Llama-3.1-8B model continually pretrained on the WURA African-language corpus to lift performance on low-resource African languages. It ships in three variants (wura, wura_edu, wura_math) and reaches leading results among similarly sized models on the IrokoBench and AfriQA African-language benchmarks. It was built by researchers at Princeton University.
Nigeria's first government-backed multilingual LLM (Sep 2025): a Llama-3 8B fine-tuned on 400M+ tokens across 4 Nigerian languages. Produced by NCAIR/NITDA and Awarri.