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Masakhane

British  
/ ˌmasaˈkanɪ /
  1. a political slogan of solidarity

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of Masakhane

C20: Nguni, literally: let us build together


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Selby Mahlalela, 38, moved to Masakhane in 2006 and has had various maintenance jobs as a contract worker for the state-owned power utility Eskom.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2022

Masakhane township, also in Mpumalanga province, sits dramatically at the base of mountains of coal mined nearby and then burned at the Duvha power station.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2022

Some of the groups BigScience worked with included Masakhane, an African machine learning group, LatinX in AI, Machine Learning Tokyo, and VietAI.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 21, 2022

He’s a founding member of Masakhane, a pan-African research project to improve how dozens of languages are represented in the branch of AI known as natural language processing.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2021

The first track, Masakhane, is a stirring call "for unity and hope in the postapartheid era."

From Time Magazine Archive

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