Award-Winning Innovation in African Language AI

Mansa Translate has received the Rising Star Award from the Association of Language Companies in Africa (ALCA), presented at the ALCA Conference in Cape Town, South Africa. The award names Mansa Translate one of the most promising new solutions in the African language industry for 2025.

About ALCA

ALCA brings together language service companies, translators, interpreters and technology providers working across Africa. Its annual conference is where the continent's language industry meets to discuss market needs, quality standards and the role of technology.

Why Mansa Translate was recognised

The award recognises our work building AI tools that support African languages with cultural accuracy and real-world usability, from enterprise-grade translation to impact across education, media, business and the public sector.

About Mansa Translate

Mansa Translate delivers contextual translation across African languages that preserves meaning and cultural nuance, not just words. Users choose the tone that fits the job:

• Precise, for word-for-word accuracy that keeps the original structure.

• Natural, for fluid, everyday translation.

• Expressive, for vivid creative content.

• Formal, for polished professional writing.

On the panel

Our founder, Sheriff Issaka, also joined the panel "Perspectives on Language Technology and Market Needs in Africa", on advancing language technology across the continent and what the market needs next: culturally intelligent solutions for underrepresented languages.

What comes next

Recognition from the African language industry itself matters to us. We keep building Mansa with the language professionals and communities who use it, and Mansa Translate is now part of Mansa, available on the web, on mobile, through the Mansa API and inside Phrase and Blackbird. If you want to bring African languages into your products or workflows, talk to us.