Language	Country	Speakers
Hausa	Nigeria/Niger/Chad	70M+
Yoruba	Nigeria/Benin/Togo	45M+
Igbo	Nigeria	30M+
Nigerian Pidgin	West Africa	75M+
Swahili	Kenya/Tanzania	200M+
Amharic	Ethiopia	35M+
Somali	Somalia/Kenya	20M+
Xhosa	South Africa	27M+
Zulu	South Africa	27M+
Shona	Zimbabwe	15M+
Luganda	Uganda	8M+
Lingala	DRC/Congo	70M+
Wolof	Senegal/Gambia	12M+
Oromo	Ethiopia/Kenya	40M+

📊 Training Details

Parameter	Value
Base Model	Llama 3.2 3B Instruct
Training Pairs	86,604
Training Steps	500
Final Loss	2.07
Method	QLoRA (r=16) via Unsloth
Hardware	NVIDIA Tesla T4
Data Sources	Masakhane, Glot500, CulturaX

💡 What BaobabAI Can Do

Summarize African news articles in local languages
Identify African languages automatically
Answer questions about African topics
Process Nigerian Pidgin English natively
Classify African content by category

🔧 Quick Start

python

from transformers import AutoModelForCausalLM, AutoTokenizer

tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained("okaforpascal40/BaobabAI-v0.2")
model = AutoModelForCausalLM.from_pretrained("okaforpascal40/BaobabAI-v0.2")

🗺️ Roadmap

v0.3 — 20 languages, 200,000+ training pairs
v0.5 — Upgrade to 8B model
v1.0 — Live REST API, enterprise ready
v2.0 — Continental dominance, 50+ languages

👨🏿‍💻 Built By

Pascal Okafor Ogbonna | SabiFlow Technologies Limited 🌍 baobabai.dev · GitHub

📜 License

Apache 2.0 — free to use, modify and build on.

The tree is planted. The continent will feel its shade. 🌳