Datasets:

BUAIR
/

Uganda-Multilingual-QA

license: cc-by-4.0
task_categories:
  - question-answering
  - text-generation
language:
  - en
  - adh
  - teo
  - nyn
  - lg
tags:
  - uganda
  - agriculture
  - multilingual
  - japadhola
  - ateso
  - runyankore
  - luganda
  - qa
  - buair
pretty_name: BUAIR Uganda Multilingual Q&A
size_categories:
  - 10K<n<100K
configs:
  - config_name: english
    data_files: english/train-*
  - config_name: japadhola
    data_files: japadhola/train-*
  - config_name: ateso
    data_files: ateso/train-*
  - config_name: runyankore
    data_files: runyankore/train-*
  - config_name: luganda
    data_files: luganda/train-*
  - config_name: all
    data_files: all/train-*

BUAIR Uganda Multilingual Q&A

Parallel question–answer dataset for Ugandan languages, curated by the BUAIR Voice initiative at Busitema University.

Each language config contains the same 5,000 agriculture / rural-livelihood Q&A pairs, with English as the shared source and high-quality translations into Japadhola, Ateso, Runyankore, and Luganda.

Languages

Config	Language	ISO 639-3	Pairs
`english`	English	`en`	5,000
`japadhola`	Japadhola (Adhola)	`adh`	5,000
`ateso`	Ateso	`teo`	5,000
`runyankore`	Runyankore	`nyn`	5,000
`luganda`	Luganda	`lg`	5,000
`all`	All languages stacked	—	25,000

Dataset fields

Column	Type	Description
`id`	int	Pair id within a language (1–5,000)
`question`	string	Question text in that language
`answer`	string	Answer text in that language
`language`	string	ISO 639-3 code (`en`, `adh`, `teo`, `nyn`, `lg`)
`language_name`	string	Human-readable language name

The all config also includes global_id (1–25,000) across languages.

Loading examples

from datasets import load_dataset

# One language
en = load_dataset("BUAIR/Uganda-Multilingual-QA", "english", split="train")
adh = load_dataset("BUAIR/Uganda-Multilingual-QA", "japadhola", split="train")

print(en[0]["question"])
print(adh[0]["question"])

# All languages together
all_langs = load_dataset("BUAIR/Uganda-Multilingual-QA", "all", split="train")
print(all_langs[0])

Parallel alignment

Rows are aligned by id across language configs: English row id=42 corresponds to the Japadhola / Ateso / Runyankore / Luganda translations of the same Q&A pair.

Domain

Questions and answers focus on Ugandan agriculture and community knowledge (crop spacing, varieties, drought tolerance, rural practices, etc.).

Source

Built from the BUAIR multilingual Q&A workbook (Multiligual-QA.xlsx), with sheets:

Japadhola
Ateso
Runyankore
Luganda

English Question / Answer columns are identical across sheets; language sheets provide the translated question and answer columns.

Ethical use

Please credit BUAIR Voice / Busitema University and the language communities when using this dataset. Prefer the published language codes and do not invent speaker or translator identities that are not in the release.

License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Citation

@dataset{buair_uganda_multilingual_qa_2026,
  title        = {BUAIR Uganda Multilingual Q&A},
  author       = {BUAIR Voice Project, Busitema University},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Hugging Face},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/BUAIR/Uganda-Multilingual-QA}},
  note         = {Parallel Q&A in English, Japadhola, Ateso, Runyankore, and Luganda.}
}

Contact

Project: BUAIR Voice — Busitema University AI Research
Hub: BUAIR
Dataset card updated: 2026-08-06