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AfriQA vs Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG)

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Category
Datasets
Datasets
Type
Language / NLP
Language / NLP
Country
🌍 Pan-African
🇳🇬 Nigeria
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Pricing
Free / CC-BY-SA 4.0
Free / CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0
Verified
Verified
Verified
Last verified
10 Oct 2026
10 Oct 2026
Tags
nlp, african-languages, question-answering, cross-lingual, open-retrieval
nlp, hausa, machine-translation, multimodal, image-captioning
Summary
Cross-lingual open-retrieval question-answering dataset with human-translated QA pairs for 10 African languages (incl. Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba), totaling 12,159 examples across train/validation/test splits. From the Masakhane initiative.
Multimodal Hausa-English dataset of 32,923 images with paired English/Hausa region descriptions (train/dev/test/challenge splits), post-edited by HausaNLP and Bayero University Kano translators for English-to-Hausa machine translation and image description.

AfriQA vs Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) at a glance

AfriQA and Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) are both listed under Language / NLP in Wycord's Datasets index.

AfriQA is based in Pan-African and Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) in Nigeria.

Both currently show the status "Docs live".

On access, both are marked "No approval needed".

Over the last 30 days Wycord's probes measured 100% uptime for AfriQA (36 checks) and 100% for Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) (36 checks).

Average response time on live probes was 207 ms for AfriQA and 233 ms for Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG).

Uptime and latency come from Wycord's own probes of each resource's website, documentation and repository, run every six hours.

How they differ

  • Pricing: AfriQA, Free / CC-BY-SA 4.0; Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG), Free / CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0.
  • Country: AfriQA, Pan-African; Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG), Nigeria.
  • Average latency: AfriQA, 207 ms; Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG), 233 ms.

Topics

Both are tagged: nlp.

Only AfriQA: african-languages, question-answering, cross-lingual, open-retrieval.

Only Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG): hausa, machine-translation, multimodal, image-captioning.

Common questions

Which has better uptime, AfriQA or Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG)?
They are level at 100% over the last 30 days.
Do AfriQA or Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) need approval before use?
Both are marked "No approval needed".
Is the documentation for AfriQA and Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) working?
Both show "Docs live" at the last check.
Where are AfriQA and Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) based?
AfriQA is based in Pan-African; Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) is based in Nigeria.

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