MasakhaNEWS
VerifiedNews-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.
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- 🌍 Pan-African
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- 25 Aug 2026
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