Datasets
MasakhaNER 2.0 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-NC 4.0
Free / CC-BY-NC 4.0
Verified
Verified
Verified
Last verified
24 Jun 2026
24 Jun 2026
Tags
nlp, ner, named-entity-recognition, african-languages, token-classification
nlp, african-languages, text-classification, news, topic-classification
Summary
Largest high-quality named-entity-recognition corpus for 20 African languages (incl. Nigerian Pidgin, Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba) with PER/ORG/LOC/DATE tags over news-domain text, totaling ~152,786 rows. Built by the Masakhane community.
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.