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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.
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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.
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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.