🚀 DATAYETU IS HIRING PART-TIME We're building the data layer for East African AI — starting with high-quality Swahili & Sheng language and evaluation data. We're currently looking for a few early people to help us take DataYetu from idea → community → customers → product.

..who is curious, highly capable and wants to help build something from the ground up, please send this their way. 👉 Roles + full specifications + application: datayetu.com/careers

We're looking for 5 AI teams building in Kenya/East Africa. We don't want your money. We want your problems. What data are you struggling to source? What does your model fail at? How do you evaluate it?

What happens when AI doesn't understand you? Ask an AI system something in textbook Swahili. Now ask it in the way someone actually speaks in Nairobi. Add Sheng. Add code-switching. Add accent. Add context.

Every technological revolution eventually develops an infrastructure layer. The internet needed servers. Finance needed ledgers. AI needs compute, models — and data. But data determines what intelligence can see, understand and get wrong..

DataYetu is entering its next chapter. 🇰🇪🌍 Africa is building AI. But AI is only as good as the data it learns from — and the data it is tested against. Today, we're building the missing layer. We are starting with Swahili/Sheng, building rights-cleared, human-reviewed and..

Can we build a useful data economy around African AI? If you're building AI, contribute to the conversation. If you're an AI lab, talk to us. If you're a data contributor, researcher or language expert, join us. If you believe Africa should help build the evidence layer..