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Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) vs MasakhaNEWS

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Category
Datasets
Datasets
Type
Language / NLP
Language / NLP
Country
🇳🇬 Nigeria
🌍 Pan-African
Docs status
Docs live
Docs live
Licensing
Pricing
Free / CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0
Free / CC-BY-NC 4.0
Verified
Verified
Verified
Last verified
10 Oct 2026
10 Oct 2026
Tags
nlp, hausa, machine-translation, multimodal, image-captioning
nlp, african-languages, text-classification, news, topic-classification
Summary
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.
News-topic-classification dataset for 16 widely spoken African languages (incl. Hausa, Igbo, Yoruba, Nigerian Pidgin), ~31,088 rows in CSV/Parquet with train/val/test splits across seven topic categories. Built by the Masakhane community.

Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) vs MasakhaNEWS at a glance

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

Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) is based in Nigeria and MasakhaNEWS 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 Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) (36 checks) and 100% for MasakhaNEWS (36 checks).

Average response time on live probes was 233 ms for Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG) and 247 ms for MasakhaNEWS.

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: Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG), Free / CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0; MasakhaNEWS, Free / CC-BY-NC 4.0.
  • Country: Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG), Nigeria; MasakhaNEWS, Pan-African.
  • Average latency: Hausa Visual Genome (HausaVG), 233 ms; MasakhaNEWS, 247 ms.

Topics

Both are tagged: nlp.

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

Only MasakhaNEWS: african-languages, text-classification, news, topic-classification.

Common questions

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

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