We celebrate the dream. We share the demos. We fill the conference rooms. But the researchers doing the actual groundwork, collecting data language by language, community by community — are largely underfunded and invisible. That has to change. The movement is only as strong as the infrastructure behind it. Who in your network needs to hear this? Tag them. And if you’re working on local language AI or funding it, let’s talk in the comments. #AfricanAI #AIForAfrica #TechAfrica #LocalLanguageAI #AIPolicy AfricanTech DataForGood InclusiveAI AfricaInnovates BuildingAfrica TechPolicy AIResearch LanguageTech AfricanFutures DecoloniseAI MloziAfrica FutureOfAfrica Multilingual AI NLP OpenData AIEthics TechForGood DigitalAfrica AfricanInnovation AIInfrastructure