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Reuters
Reuters
Business
By Francis Mukasa and Sofia Christensen

Students cheer as online translation tools add more African languages

FILE PHOTO: The logo of Google is seen at the high profile startups and high tech leaders gathering, Viva Tech,in Paris, France May 16, 2019. REUTERS/Charles Platiau

Ugandan IT student Andrew Njuki spent years hunched over English-language textbooks, often grappling with material that would have been easier to grasp in his mother tongue Luganda.

As of May, the 27-year-old has been able to copy-paste his online teaching materials into Alphabet Inc's Google translation service and read them directly in Uganda's official language Luganda, spoken by millions across the east African country but not taught in schools.

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