Your voice is Africa's future.
Njiwa is a community-powered platform that collects authentic African dialects like Pidgin, Sheng, Swahili and more to train AI systems that truly understand us.
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The Process
Simple to start,
meaningful to all.
Choose a Prompt
Browse a feed of text prompts crafted by linguists, from street slang to formal phrases, in your native dialect.
Record Your Voice
Hit record directly in your browser. No app to download, no hardware needed. Just you and your voice.
Community Review
Fellow native speakers verify your clip for authenticity, accent accuracy, and audio quality.
Get Paid
Every approved clip earns you a direct payout to your digital wallet. Withdraw anytime.
Every accent carries a story worth preserving.
From the banter of Lagos markets to the poetry of Swahili coast evenings, Njiwa captures the full, living texture of African communication, not a sanitised version of it.
Start ContributingWhy Njiwa
Built for speakers, by speakers.
Authentic, Not Approximate
Other datasets sanitise African speech into formal English. Njiwa captures the real thing, code-switches, contractions, tonal nuances, and all.
Fair, Transparent Pay
We publish what each prompt pays before you record. No black-box payouts, no hidden conditions. You know your worth before you hit record.
Community Verified
Every submission is reviewed by native speakers from the same region. You are the expert, not an algorithm.
Be part of what comes next.
Create a free account, choose the languages you speak, and start earning on tasks in your languages.
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