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Find the people who actually speak the language.

Get discovered for annotation work, find mentors and collaborators, and build a verified reputation in African NLP — endorsed by the communities who speak the language, and wired straight into AfriAnnotate projects.

Verified
by Language Leads
Endorsed
by the community
Connected
to AfriAnnotate
finder.afriannotate.org/asks
AfriFinder asks board with real community postings
ORCID · GitHub · institutional verificationCommunity endorsementsPer-language Language Leads
The problem

African NLP hits the same two walls — again and again.

Finding verified, quality annotators for a specific language, and finding the right researcher or linguist to collaborate with. Today that happens over Twitter, WhatsApp groups and word of mouth — slow, opaque, and impossible to scale. AfriFinder is one place to do both, with people who actually speak the language vouching for who is qualified.

Two sides, one community

Opportunities and a directory

Opportunities

Find work, mentors & collaborators

A live board of asks from the community — annotation work, mentorship, co-author slots, and project staffing in African languages.

  • Researchers, labs and NGOs post real opportunities; you raise your hand in your language.
  • Find a mentor, join a paper, or pick up annotation work and turn it into experience.
  • Opportunities link straight into AfriAnnotate, so labelling starts with one click.
Directory

Expert & collaborator directory

Discoverable profiles of students, practitioners and experts in African AI/NLP — searchable by what they actually do.

  • Filter by language, NLP domain (MT, ASR, sentiment, TTS, NER) and region to find collaborators.
  • Verified via ORCID, GitHub and institutional email — no anonymous accounts.
  • Earn community endorsements that build a portable, trusted reputation.
finder.afriannotate.org
AfriFinder verified people directory with language and domain filters
The directory

Search by language, domain, and region

A verified directory of students, practitioners and experts in African AI and NLP. Filter by the languages people speak, the NLP domains they work in, and the endorsements they've earned — then reach out to collaborate.

How it works

Join. Get endorsed. Get matched.

01

Build your profile

Register, declare the languages you speak and the domains you work in, and get verified via ORCID, GitHub or institutional email.

02

Get endorsed

Language Leads and peers vouch for your work, building a reputation that travels with you across the community.

03

Get matched

Pick up annotation work, find mentors and collaborators, and jump straight into AfriAnnotate projects.

The difference

MTurk vs AfriFinder

MTurk
Generic, global, anonymous
No reputation that travels
One-off micro-tasks only
No mentors or collaborators
Disconnected from your tooling
AfriFinder
African languages first
Verified profiles + community endorsements
Work, mentorship and collaboration
Find mentors, co-authors and project teams
Wired straight into AfriAnnotate projects
Community-owned

Get discovered. Find your people.

Build a verified profile, pick up work, find mentors and collaborators — or lead a language as a trusted community voice.