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AfriQA vs MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand)

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AfriQAMAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand)
Category
Datasets
Datasets
Type
Language / NLP
Language / NLP
Country
🌍 Pan-African
🌍 Pan-African
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Pricing
Free / CC-BY-SA 4.0
Free / open (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Verified
Verified
Unverified
Last verified
10 Oct 2026
10 Oct 2026
Tags
nlp, african-languages, question-answering, cross-lingual, open-retrieval
nlp, african-languages, news, machine-translation, parquet
Links
Website Docs GitHub
Website Docs GitHub
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.
Largest news-domain machine translation benchmark for African languages, covering 21 languages with English or French as source. It contains 142,909 parallel sentences in parquet with train, dev and test splits, hosted on HuggingFace. Licensed CC BY-NC 4.0.

AfriQA vs MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand) at a glance

AfriQA and MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand) are both listed under Language / NLP in Wycord's Datasets index.

Both are based in Pan-African.

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 MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand) (36 checks).

Average response time on live probes was 207 ms for AfriQA and 160 ms for MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand).

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; MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand), Free / open (CC BY-NC 4.0).
  • Verification: AfriQA, Verified; MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand), Unverified.
  • Average latency: AfriQA, 207 ms; MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand), 160 ms.

Topics

Both are tagged: nlp, african-languages.

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

Only MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand): news, machine-translation, parquet.

Common questions

Which has better uptime, AfriQA or MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand)?
They are level at 100% over the last 30 days.
Do AfriQA or MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand) need approval before use?
Both are marked "No approval needed".
Is the documentation for AfriQA and MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand) working?
Both show "Docs live" at the last check.
Where are AfriQA and MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand) based?
Both are based in Pan-African.

More comparisons

Full details: AfriQAFull details: MAFAND-MT (masakhane/mafand)