Africa: Young Africans Go Online to Preserve Local Languages, Fight Covid-19

Johannesburg/Tulsa — As internet use surges on the continent, projects are working to help Africans find information online in their mother tongues

  • COVID-19 threatens to widen the digital divide
  • African internet users struggle to find relevant content
  • Projects spread information in local African languages

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