Luganda Monolingual Corpus

This dataset contains 100,000 Luganda sentences. Luganda is a Bantu language and is one of the major languages spoken in Uganda. This dataset was compiled by researchers at the Makerere AI and Data Science Research Lab and Marconi Research and Innovation Lab. We want to thank the Department of African Languages, Makerere University and the Ekibiina Ky'Olulimi Oluganda (EKO) for the work done in curating the dataset. We would like to thank the Buganda Kingdom for partnering with us and also for the support towards the collection of this Luganda monolingual text corpus through its agencies. We would also like to acknowledge the various organisations and individuals from which we sourced this data; Gambuuze News, Buganda Land Board, the Independent News, Jerum Agency and Bonamix Translation Services Ltd. 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.