AfriMMLU (IrokoBench)
Human-translated multiple-choice question-answering evaluation benchmark covering 16 to 17 African languages plus English and French, derived from a subset of MMLU across subjects like maths, geography and law. Distributed as CSV and parquet on HuggingFace and forms part of the IrokoBench suite (MMLU, MGSM, XNLI). Licensed Apache 2.0.
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- 🌍 Pan-African
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- 10 Oct 2026
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