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afriqa

Zulu(zul)Textquestion-answeringSouthern Africa
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Dataset Info

Language
Zulu (zul)
Modality
Text
Domain
NLP (News)
Size
10K<n<100K n (samples)
Institution
masakhane
Last Updated
27 Oct 2026

License & Access

SPDX identifiercc-by-sa-4.0

Open — attribution required; commercial use allowed.

RedistributionYes

PII RISK

Unknown risk

Full Record

25 of 46 fields stated

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Registry columns (17/27)

iso code
zul
Dataset name
afriqa
Modality
Text
Type
dataset
Link
https://huggingface.co/datasets/masakhane/afriqa
NLP Task
question-answering
Domain
NLP (News)
Data Format
Not stated
Size Metric
n (samples)
Size Value
10K<n<100K n (samples)
License
cc-by-sa-4.0
Open Access
Open
Source Repository
Hugging Face
Year Published
2023
Creator/Author(s)
masakhane
Funder/Partner
Masakhane
Dialect Coverage
Not stated
Gender Balance
Not stated
Speaker Count
Not stated
Annotation Type
Not stated
Status
Not stated
Has Datasheet
YesderivedHugging Face card: README with a description of 300+ characters
PII Risk
Not stated
Consent Verified
Not stated
Verified By
Not stated
Date Indexed
2026-10-27
Notes / Flags
Not stated

Quality (DQI) (6/12)

Datasheet Fields Completed
Not stated
SPDX License ID
CC-BY-SA-4.0
Redistribution Allowed?
Yes
Content Hash
ad2551ec00aa33e358b045f5c26077bacf9628f9derivedHugging Face card: commit sha
Submitted By
hf_data pipeline (automated)
Fetch Date
2026-10-27
Last Updated Date
2023-07-07derivedHugging Face card: lastModified
Annotation Guidelines Available?
Not stated
IAA Score
Not stated
Cleaning Notes
Not stated
Benchmark Exists?
Not stated
Benchmark Citation
Not stated

Representativeness (DRI) (2/7)

Gender Distribution
Not stated
Region Coverage
Egypt
Region Distribution
Not stated
Age Range Coverage
Not stated
Register
Not stated
Marginalized Group Note
Not stated
Demographic Fields Reported Count
1

Readiness Score Breakdown

5/5
Data Coverage100%
Model Availability100%
Benchmarks100%
Documentation76%
Recency100%

Representativeness

Gender Balance
Regional Distribution
Dialect Coverage
Inclusivity

Provenance

Source URL
https://huggingface.co/datasets/masakhane/afriqa
Fetch Timestamp
27 Oct 2026
Content Hash
ad2551ec00aa33e358b045f5c26077bacf9628f9

Audit Log

Record indexed from Hugging Face

27 Oct 2026

Source status: Unknown

27 Oct 2026

Other Copies

The same resource, also published at these locations. It is counted once.

dataset

afriqa

question-answering · NLP (News) domain · Theafricatechguy

10 languages2 copiesZulu(zul)Nlpquestion-answering
HUHugging Face
Open27 Oct 2026

Also Available In

This is the same multilingual corpus, sliced for other languages the platform indexes it under.

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afriqa

question-answering · NLP (News) domain · masakhane

10 languages2 copiesBemba(bem)Textquestion-answering
HUHugging Face
Open27 Oct 2026
dataset

AfriQA

Cross-lingual QA, over 12,000 XOR QA examples across 10 African languages, train/validation/test for all. Language list read 2026-07-24.

10 languages2 copiesFon(fon)TextQA
HUHugging Face
Open24 Jul 2026
dataset

AfriQA

Cross-lingual QA, over 12,000 XOR QA examples across 10 African languages, train/validation/test for all. Language list read 2026-07-24.

10 languages2 copiesHausa(hau)TextQA
HUHugging Face
Open24 Jul 2026
dataset

AfriQA

Cross-lingual QA, over 12,000 XOR QA examples across 10 African languages, train/validation/test for all. Language list read 2026-07-24.

10 languages2 copiesIgbo(ibo)TextQA
HUHugging Face
Open24 Jul 2026
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afriqa

Hugging Face dataset tagged for Kinyarwanda. This may be a broad multilingual resource rather than a language-specific corpus.

10 languages2 copiesKinyarwanda(kin)TextQA
HUHugging Face
Open9 Jul 2026
dataset

AfriQA

Cross-lingual QA, over 12,000 XOR QA examples across 10 African languages, train/validation/test for all. Language list read 2026-07-24. Subset code on the H…

10 languages2 copiesSwahili(swh)TextQA
HUHugging Face
Open24 Jul 2026
dataset

AfriQA

Cross-lingual QA, over 12,000 XOR QA examples across 10 African languages, train/validation/test for all. Language list read 2026-07-24.

10 languages2 copiesTwi(twi)TextQA
HUHugging Face
Open24 Jul 2026
dataset

afriqa

question-answering · NLP (News) domain · masakhane

10 languages2 copiesWolof(wol)Textquestion-answering
HUHugging Face
Open27 Oct 2026
dataset

AfriQA

Cross-lingual QA, over 12,000 XOR QA examples across 10 African languages, train/validation/test for all. Language list read 2026-07-24. yor subset shows 1.0…

10 languages2 copiesYoruba(yor)TextQA
HUHugging Face
Open24 Jul 2026

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