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**Open-source ML training and inference framework for African AI.**
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## What We Build
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> *Your model. Your data. Your task.*
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## Why
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Africa's AI ecosystem is being built on API wrappers — products that call GPT-4 or Claude and rebrand the output as "African AI." These products are expensive at scale, dependent on foreign infrastructure, unable to handle African languages properly, and unable to keep sensitive data on the continent.
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A locally trained, domain-adapted model:
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## Responsible AI
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- **Explainability** — every prediction can be explained in human-readable terms
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- **Audit trails** — hash-chained tamper-evident logging of all inference decisions
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## Community
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We believe that building AI for Africa means building it on African data, in African languages, with African institutional contexts — not wrapping foreign models in local branding.
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## Links
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- 🐙 **GitHub**: [github.com/Rogendo/
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- 📦 **Framework**: `pip install jenga-
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- 📄 **Docs**: Coming soon
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- 🤝 **Contribute**: Open to contributors — researchers, engineers, domain experts, annotators
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# JengaNLP
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**Open-source ML training and inference framework for African AI.**
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## What We Build
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JengaNLP is a framework that lets researchers, engineers, and non-technical teams train production-grade machine learning models on African language data — and deploy them without vendor lock-in, without API dependencies, and without sending sensitive data to foreign servers.
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> *Your model. Your data. Your task.*
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## Why JengaNLP Exists
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Africa's AI ecosystem is being built on API wrappers — products that call GPT-4 or Claude and rebrand the output as "African AI." These products are expensive at scale, dependent on foreign infrastructure, unable to handle African languages properly, and unable to keep sensitive data on the continent.
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JengaNLP exists to make the alternative practical.
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A locally trained, domain-adapted model:
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- Costs nothing at inference time after training
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## Responsible AI
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JengaNLP is built with responsible AI development as a core principle, not an afterthought:
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- **Explainability** — every prediction can be explained in human-readable terms
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- **Audit trails** — hash-chained tamper-evident logging of all inference decisions
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## Community
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JengaNLP is developed in the spirit of African AI communities doing the work right — [Data Science Africa](https://www.datascienceafrica.org/), [Masakhane](https://www.masakhane.io/), [Deep Learning Indaba](https://deeplearningindaba.com/), and [AIMS](https://nexteinstein.org/).
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We believe that building AI for Africa means building it on African data, in African languages, with African institutional contexts — not wrapping foreign models in local branding.
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## Links
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- 🐙 **GitHub**: [github.com/Rogendo/JengaNLP](https://github.com/Rogendo/JengaNLP)
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- 📦 **Framework**: `pip install jenga-nlp`
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- 📄 **Docs**: Coming soon
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- 🤝 **Contribute**: Open to contributors — researchers, engineers, domain experts, annotators
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