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Masakhane

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/ ˌmasaˈkanɪ /
  1. a political slogan of solidarity

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Masakhane

C20: Nguni, literally: let us build together

Example Sentences

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Masakhane township, also in Mpumalanga province, sits dramatically at the base of mountains of coal mined nearby and then burned at the Duvha power station.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 20, 2022

Some of the groups BigScience worked with included Masakhane, an African machine learning group, LatinX in AI, Machine Learning Tokyo, and VietAI.

From Washington Post • Jul. 21, 2022

He’s a founding member of Masakhane, a pan-African research project to improve how dozens of languages are represented in the branch of AI known as natural language processing.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 23, 2021

To improve the AI systems in various African languages, Masakhane researchers are also tapping into news sources across the continent, including Voice of America’s Hausa service and the BBC broadcast in Igbo.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 23, 2021

The first track, Masakhane, is a stirring call "for unity and hope in the postapartheid era."

From Time Magazine Archive