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Nigeria Real-Time Monthly Food Prices (World Bank)
Monthly food price estimates for ~13 commodities (rice, maize, beans, millet, sorghum, yam, gari, fish, meat) across 73 Nigerian markets, compiled by the World Bank from WFP/FAO and national sources, covering Jan 2007 through 2026 with downloadable files and a Data API.
Nigerian Pidgin ASR (nigerian-pidgin-1.0)
Speech-to-text corpus for Nigerian Pidgin English: 4,277 quality-filtered 16kHz WAV recordings with sentence-level transcriptions from 10 native speakers, split train 2,710 / val 677 / test 892, ~956 MB.
Nigerian Supreme Court cases
Open legal-text dataset of 5,585 Nigerian Supreme Court cases (1962–2022) in English. The only known open Nigerian legal ML dataset.
OSM school locations (HDX)
OpenStreetMap school location data on HDX (GeoJSON/CSV, monthly updates). Good urban coverage with significant rural gaps; no enrollment or quality data.
OpenCelliD Nigeria
Free cell-tower location dataset (CSV) covering all four Nigerian operators (MCC 621) with tower lat/lng, operator, RAT and signal strength on a rolling 18-month window. Rural coverage is sparse.
OpenStreetMap Nigeria Extract (Geofabrik)
Daily-updated OpenStreetMap data extract for Nigeria in .osm.pbf (~677 MB), ESRI shapefile .shp.zip (~2.0 GB) and .gpkg.zip (~2.0 GB), plus dated historical snapshots. Distributed by Geofabrik under ODbL.
Population estimates (GRID3 v3.0)
Modelled gridded population raster (100m, GeoTIFF, Aug 2025) covering all of Nigeria, aggregatable to LGA/ward level.
An estimate, not a census, the last census was 2006 and the 2023 census did not happen.
States/LGAs JSON
Zero-dependency JavaScript package (naija-state-local-government) providing Nigerian states, LGAs and senatorial districts; some versions add wards and polling units.
Ward Boundaries (GRID3)
Ward boundary polygons in GeoJSON/SHP, no auth.
v1.0 covers all states (approximate); high-accuracy v2.0 covers only 15 of 36 states.
WorldPop Nigeria Population Counts 2020
Gridded population count raster for Nigeria at ~100m (3 arc-second) resolution, 2020, in GeoTIFF, UN-adjusted and constrained to building footprints. Single-file download ~58.67 MB from WorldPop (University of Southampton), CC BY 4.0.
Yoruba Speech-Text Parallel Corpus
Large Yoruba parallel speech-text corpus of 1,647,022 audio-text pairs (~21.5 GB, WAV) aligned with the MMS-300M Forced Aligner for ASR and TTS, with clips of 0.04-12 seconds.
AfTerFibre African Fibre Optic Network Map
Open geodata mapping terrestrial and undersea fibre optic cable routes across Africa, digitised from operator maps into GIS format. The dataset is downloadable as CSV, SHP, KML, GeoJSON and SVG via the map portal and GitHub, and is also mirrored in the FAO data catalog. It is community-maintained by Steve Song under an open-data model.
AfriHate Hate Speech Datasets
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.
AfriMMLU (IrokoBench)
Human-translated multiple-choice question-answering evaluation benchmark covering 16 to 17 African languages plus English and French, derived from a subset of MMLU across subjects like maths, geography and law. Distributed as CSV and parquet on HuggingFace and forms part of the IrokoBench suite (MMLU, MGSM, XNLI). Licensed Apache 2.0.
Africa Electricity Transmission & Distribution Grid Map
Open GIS map of existing and planned electricity transmission and distribution lines for all continental African countries and Madagascar, tagged by voltage (sub-kV to 700kV) and status. Four downloadable resources cover combined, existing-only and planned-only lines as GeoJSON plus a Shapefile package. Published by the World Bank on ENERGYDATA.INFO under CC BY 4.0 and last updated September 2024.
Africapolis Urban Agglomerations (OECD/SWAC)
Standardised geospatial database of urban agglomerations across all 54 African countries, built from censuses, electoral registers and satellite imagery. Each urban area is a polygon with population and built-up-area attributes, available in 2015 and 2020 versions. Data is downloadable as geospatial vector files from africapolis.org under CC BY 4.0.
Afrobarometer Survey Data
Nationally representative public-attitude surveys on democracy, governance, the economy and society across roughly 39 African countries and nine survey rounds. Country-level and merged multi-country datasets are provided with codebooks in SPSS, Stata and CSV. Data is free to use; the most recent Round 9 covers 2021 to 2023.
DataFirst Open Data Portal (UCT)
Research data service cataloguing African household, labour and census microdata, centred on South Africa but including other African countries, with full survey documentation and questionnaires. Microdata downloads (Stata, SPSS, CSV) require a free account and agreement to terms, while the catalog itself is openly browsable. Maintained by the University of Cape Town.
Digital Earth Africa Analysis-Ready EO Data
Continental analysis-ready satellite data platform providing cropland extent, Water Observations from Space, coastline change, fractional cover and GeoMAD products for all of Africa. Data is served as Cloud-Optimized GeoTIFF via a STAC API (explorer.digitalearth.africa/stac), OGC Web Services (ows.digitalearth.africa), an AWS S3 open bucket and a JupyterHub Sandbox. Products are derived from Landsat and Sentinel and are continuously updated.
FAO WaPOR (Water Productivity)
Near-real-time remote-sensing database of evapotranspiration, biomass production and water productivity covering Africa and the Near East. Data is provided from continental to field scale (300m, 100m and 30m) as GeoTIFF and through an API, refreshed on a dekadal (10-day) cadence. Free and open access from FAO.
Google Open Buildings (Africa)
Machine-learning building footprint dataset first released for Africa and now covering 1.8 billion detections, each with a polygon, confidence score and Plus Code. Africa is served both as the original continent-wide product and as per-country GeoParquet/GeoJSON extracts on HDX. Data downloads as CSV by S2 cell, via gsutil, Google Earth Engine or the web explorer; latest v3 is May 2023.
Kencorpus Kenyan Language Corpus
Text and speech corpus for three Kenyan languages, Swahili, Dholuo and Luhya, containing 4,442 texts (5.6 million words) and 1,152 speech files (177 hours). It also ships derived NLP sets: POS-tagged Dholuo/Luhya, 7,537 Swahili question-answer pairs and 13,400 translated sentences. Downloadable from Harvard Dataverse; released 2022.
Kenya Subnational Administrative Boundaries (OCHA COD)
Official Common Operational Dataset administrative boundaries for Kenya, from national down through counties, sub-counties and wards. Provided on HDX as Shapefile and other GIS formats, maintained by OCHA together with the government. Free download and openly licensed.
MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand)
Largest news-domain machine translation benchmark for African languages, covering 21 languages with English or French as source. It contains 142,909 parallel sentences in parquet with train, dev and test splits, hosted on HuggingFace. Licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.