Internal DOI: makai4d.2026.cb574d09

Kiswahili Monolingual Corpus

This dataset contains 100,000 Kiswahili sentences. We want to thank the team at the Makerere AI and Marconi Labs at Makerere University, TAVODET Youth Development (TYD) Innovation Incubator, Ai Kenya, Maseno University, United States International University-Africa (USIU-Africa), and Kabarak University who have worked tirelessly and collaboratively to source, create and prepare this Kiswahili monolingual dataset. This dataset was created with support from Lacuna Fund. For more information on how the dataset was created, please check out our paper published at AfricaNLP.

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Version 1.1
Keyword Natural Language Processing, Monolingual
License/Data Use Agreement CC BY 4.0
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