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Xcelerator · Person

Paul Azunre

Khaya AI / GhanaNLP

Artificial Intelligence, African-Language NLP

Signal

Region
Ghana
Industry
Artificial Intelligence, African-Language NLP
Source file
profiles/ghana_business_people.md:493
Status
published

Economic impact

Co-founded and leads work around Khaya AI and GhanaNLP, building machine translation, automatic speech recognition, and text-to-speech tooling for Ghanaian and African languages. The GhanaNLP ecosystem has published open datasets and models for languages including Akan, Dagbani, Twi, Fante, Ewe, Ga, and Kusaal, giving Ghana's national AI strategy practical local-language infrastructure.

Sources

  1. Khaya
  2. GhanaNLP
  3. arXiv
Last updated: 5/27/2026 by xecon desk corrections@xecon.dev