Conceptualized Machine Translation for African Languages.
Translate across 30+ African languages with AI that understands meaning, context, and culture.
Try Mansa TranslateBuilt for African language understanding.
More than translation.

Conceptualized Machine Translation
Preserves meaning, intent, and cultural context instead of translating word for word.

Translate between over 30 African Languages
Translate text accurately across 30+ African languages while preserving meaning, context, and cultural nuance.
Built on deep African language research.
The research behind every translation.
Behind every translation is years of African language research, multilingual model development, and continuous improvement by African Languages Lab.
Ethical Text Collection
Parallel text sourced responsibly from authentic African language contexts.
Translation Model Training
Models trained to carry meaning between two African languages directly.
Human-in-the-Loop Evaluation
Translations continuously improved by native speakers and expert linguists.
Continuous Model Improvement
Ongoing research ensures Mansa Translate becomes more accurate over time.
Mansa Translate is built for every team
Everyday messaging
Write to family, friends, and colleagues in the language they are most at home in.
Reading widely
Follow articles, posts, and documents written in a language you are still learning.
Study and language learning
See how meaning shifts between languages instead of memorising word swaps.
Forms and official notices
Make paperwork, notices, and instructions readable in your own language.
Customer support
Answer customers in their own language without losing tone or intent.
Localization
Adapt products, help centres, and campaigns into African languages at scale.
Internal communication
Keep multilingual teams aligned by translating updates and documentation.
Public information
Publish health, education, and civic information in the languages people speak.
FAQs
Instead of swapping words one at a time, Mansa translates the intent behind a sentence, so tone, idiom, and cultural context survive the move between languages.
Mansa Translate covers 30+ African languages alongside English, and can translate between two African languages directly rather than routing through English.
Yes. Translations preserve register, so a formal notice stays formal and a casual message still sounds casual.
Idioms are translated for meaning rather than literally, so proverbs and figures of speech land the way they were intended.
Yes. Longer passages and documents are translated as a whole, so structure and meaning stay intact across the full text.
Native speakers and expert linguists review translations continuously, and that feedback feeds back into model training.
Yes. The translation API lets you build African-language translation into your app, website, or support tooling.
Text you translate is never used to train our models without explicit consent, and enterprise data is handled under strict privacy and security controls.