{"id":5405,"date":"2026-06-15T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/storylinegh.com\/?p=5405"},"modified":"2026-06-15T16:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T16:00:18","slug":"african-languages-must-be-built-into-ai-systems-university-of-ghana-vice-chancellor-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/storylinegh.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/15\/african-languages-must-be-built-into-ai-systems-university-of-ghana-vice-chancellor-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"AFRICAN LANGUAGES MUST BE BUILT INTO AI SYSTEMS, UNIVERSITY\u00a0OF GHANA VICE-CHANCELLOR\u00a0WARNS\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>University of Ghana Vice-Chancellor Professor Nana Aba Appiah Amfo has warned that Africa risks being marginalised in the global AI revolution if its languages, voices, and knowledge systems\u00a0remain\u00a0underrepresented in artificial intelligence systems.<\/strong> Speaking at the Fifth Warwick Distinguished Africa Lecture at the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom on Thursday, she called for the intentional inclusion of African languages in AI design. Africa&#8217;s linguistic diversity should be viewed as a valuable resource, not a barrier to technological advancement.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In her lecture titled &#8220;Whose Language Counts? African Voices, Knowledge Systems, and the Future of AI,&#8221; Prof. Appiah Amfo argued that the future of AI must reflect the languages, cultures, and knowledge systems of all people if it is to serve humanity equitably. &#8220;Without embedding African languages in the design of Artificial Intelligence, the systems being built to serve the world will serve only part of it,&#8221; she&nbsp;stated.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Africa is home to more than 2,000 living languages spoken by over 1.4 billion people, yet a recent UNESCO report described African languages as a &#8220;blind spot in AI&#8221; because they&nbsp;remain&nbsp;significantly underrepresented in the datasets used to train large language models. Prof. Appiah Amfo stressed that the issue extends beyond language representation to questions of knowledge, visibility, and equity. &#8220;When a language is absent from the digital corpus, it is not merely a translation problem. It is a visibility problem. It is a knowledge problem.&nbsp;And ultimately, it&nbsp;becomes a question of justice,&#8221; she said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"557\" src=\"https:\/\/storylinegh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ugv-1024x557.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5407\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.8384758897818598;width:430px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storylinegh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ugv-1024x557.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/storylinegh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ugv-300x163.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/storylinegh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ugv-768x418.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/storylinegh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ugv-1170x637.jpeg 1170w, https:\/\/storylinegh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ugv.jpeg 1325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Prof. Nana Aba Appiah Amfo addressing the gathering at Warwick\u00a0<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AI systems trained&nbsp;predominantly on&nbsp;English and other widely spoken languages risk reinforcing Western perspectives while overlooking African philosophical traditions, indigenous knowledge systems, and cultural nuances. To illustrate the challenge, Prof. Appiah Amfo cited &#8220;Nana Aba AI,&#8221; a voice assistant being developed by University of Ghana students to provide verified information to staff and students. While the system replicated her voice effectively in English, it struggled with Ghanaian names, places, and local expressions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The system could reproduce &#8216;me&#8217; in English with considerable success. The moment it&nbsp;encountered&nbsp;Ghanaian names, places, and phrases, the voice I was hearing no longer sounded like me. My own name did not sound like mine,&#8221; she said. Developers have since asked her to record her voice in a studio to help the system better learn Ghanaian pronunciations and languages. &#8220;AI does not struggle with African languages because they are too complex. It struggles because we have not yet been seen,&#8221; she remarked.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prof. Appiah Amfo challenged policymakers, researchers, and technology developers to ensure Africa&nbsp;participates&nbsp;not merely as a consumer of AI technologies but as a contributor to the values, assumptions, and knowledge systems embedded within them. The lecture comes shortly after Ghana&#8217;s launch of its National AI Strategy, a 10-year framework backed by a $250 million government commitment aimed at positioning the country as a leader in Africa&#8217;s AI ecosystem. The strategy includes plans to&nbsp;establish&nbsp;a world-class AI computing centre and strengthen natural language processing capabilities in Ghanaian languages.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/storylinegh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/wa-1024x682.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5408\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.5014650726676042;width:467px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/storylinegh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/wa-1024x682.png 1024w, https:\/\/storylinegh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/wa-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/storylinegh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/wa-768x511.png 768w, https:\/\/storylinegh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/wa-1170x779.png 1170w, https:\/\/storylinegh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/wa.png 1537w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Prof. Amfo and UG team with the\u00a0Vice\u2011Chancellor and President of UW, Professor Stuart Croft and other UW officials\u00a0<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The University of Ghana, which recently adopted its own AI Policy, will introduce a compulsory Digital Literacy and Applied AI course for all students beginning next academic year. University of Warwick Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Stuart Croft praised Prof. Appiah Amfo&#8217;s contribution, describing it as a reminder of the importance of diverse perspectives in shaping the future of research and innovation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prof. Nana Aba Appiah Amfo is only the second Ghanaian to deliver the Warwick Distinguished Africa Lecture since its&nbsp;inception, following former University of Ghana Vice-Chancellor Emeritus Professor Ernest Aryeetey.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>University of Ghana Vice-Chancellor Professor Nana Aba Appiah Amfo has warned that Africa risks being marginalised in the global AI revolution if its languages, voices,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123462,"featured_media":5406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,104,37],"tags":[302,303,301],"class_list":["post-5405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","category-technology","tag-african-languages","tag-ai-development","tag-university-of-ghana","two-columns"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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