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dataset_info:
  - config_name: Akan_Twi_dev
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  - config_name: Lingala_dev
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  - tw
  - am
  - ha
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  - ln
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  - rw
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license: cc-by-nc-4.0
size_categories:
  - 1K<n<10K
task_categories:
  - image-text-to-text
  - audio-text-to-text
  - question-answering
pretty_name: 'Afri-MCQA: Multimodal Cultural Question Answering for African Languages'
tags:
  - multimodal
  - african-languages
  - vqa
  - low-resource languages
  - multilingual

Afri-MCQA: Multimodal Cultural Question Answering for African Languages

Paper

Overview

Afri-MCQA is the first multilingual cultural question-answering benchmark covering 8k Q&A pairs across 16 African languages from 13 countries. The benchmark offers parallel English-African language Q&A pairs across text and speech modalities, entirely created by native speakers.

Supported Tasks

  • Visual Question Answering (VQA): Multiple-choice and open-ended QA grounded in culturally relevant images
  • Visual Audio Question Answering: Speech-based QA grounded in culturally relevant images in native African languages and African-accented English
  • Language Identification (LID): Identifying which of the 15 languages is spoken
  • Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR): Transcribing spoken African language audio

Languages

Language - Country Language Family Region
Akan/Twi - Ghana Niger-Congo / Volta-Niger West
Amharic - Ethiopia Afro-Asiatic / Ethio-Semitic East
Chichewa - Malawi Niger-Congo / Bantu South & East
Hausa - Nigeria Afro-Asiatic / Chadic West
Igbo - Nigeria Niger-Congo / Volta-Niger West
Kikuyu - Kenya Niger-Congo / Bantu East
Kinyarwanda - Rwanda Niger-Congo / Bantu East
Lingala - DRC Niger–Congo/ Bantu Central Africa
Luganda - Uganda Niger-Congo / Bantu East
Oromo - Ethiopia Afro-Asiatic / Cushitic East
Setswana - Botswana Niger-Congo / Bantu South
Somali - Somalia Afro-Asiatic / Cushitic East
Tigrinya - Eritrea Afro-Asiatic / Ethio-Semitic East
Yoruba - Nigeria Niger-Congo / Volta-Niger West
Sesotho - Lesotho Niger-Congo / Bantu South
Zulu - South Africa Niger-Congo / Bantu South

Total speaker population: ~412.6 million

Dataset Structure

Each sample includes:

  • image: Culturally relevant image
  • question_english / question_native: Question in both languages
  • options_english / options_native: Four multiple-choice options
  • answer: Correct answer
  • audio_question_english / audio_question_native: Audio recordings
  • category: One of 10 cultural categories
  • country / language: Origin metadata

Cultural Categories

🏛️ Geography & Landmarks | 👤 Public Figures & Pop Culture | 🍲 Cooking & Food | 👕 Objects & Clothing |🎭 Traditions & History | 🏢 Brands & Companies | 🌿 Plants & Animals | 👨‍👩‍👧 People & Everyday Life | 🚗 Vehicles & Transportation | ⚽ Sports & Recreation

Licensing

This dataset is released under CC-BY-NC-4.0.

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

# Per language
amharic_dev = load_dataset("Atnafu/Afri-MCQA", "Amharic_dev", split="dev")
amharic_test = load_dataset("Atnafu/Afri-MCQA", "Amharic_test", split="test")

# All languages grouped
all_dev = load_dataset("Atnafu/Afri-MCQA", "all_dev", split="dev")
all_test = load_dataset("Atnafu/Afri-MCQA", "all_test", split="test")

Citation

@article{tonja2026afri,
  title={Afri-MCQA: Multimodal Cultural Question Answering for African Languages},
  author={Tonja, Atnafu Lambebo and Anand, Srija and Villa-Cueva, Emilio and Azime, Israel Abebe and Alabi, Jesujoba Oluwadara and Mohamed, Muhidin A and Yadeta, Debela Desalegn and Abadi, Negasi Haile and Oppong, Abigail and Obiefuna, Nnaemeka Casmir and others},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.05699},
  year={2026}
}