Mansa Is Now Live on Blackbird: A Major Leap for African Language Technology

At All Lab, our mission has always been clear: to preserve, digitize, and empower African languages so they can thrive in the modern digital ecosystem. With over 2,000 languages across the continent, many of them underrepresented online, Africa’s linguistic heritage deserves tools that are not only inclusive but built for real-world use at scale.

Today, we are excited to share a significant milestone in that journey. Mansa AI is now live as a native app on Blackbird.io, thanks to a meaningful and highly productive collaboration with the Blackbird team.

Why This Partnership Matters

Mansa AI was created to provide enterprise-grade translation and language technology for African languages. Its current support includes 20 languages such as Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Hausa, Igbo, Somali, Xhosa, Zulu, Yoruba, Kinyarwanda, Shona, Tswana, Chichewa, Luganda, Malagasy, Oromo, Sesotho, Sepedi, Swahili, and Tsonga. This work lays the foundation for inclusive AI-driven solutions across industries.

However, accessibility and adoption at scale require more than accurate models. They require infrastructure that organizations can rely on.
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This is where Blackbird.io made a significant contribution.

Why This Partnership Matters

The Blackbird team developed the native Mansa AI app, making it far easier for organizations to integrate African language translation into their workflows. In addition, they:

Added deep XLIFF support, enabling smooth and reliable localization processes

Enabled integration with nearly 200 business applications such as Adobe Experience Manager, AWS S3, Notion, Slack, HubSpot, Zendesk, Contentful, Storyblok, Sitecore, and more

Enhanced how Mansa handles context and memory to improve translation quality in enterprise environments

These improvements transform Mansa AI from a powerful engine into a full-featured, enterprise-ready language technology solution.

A Step Forward for African Languages

This collaboration does more than strengthen our platform. It expands the possibilities for African languages within global digital systems. With the Blackbird integration, organizations anywhere in the world can now adopt African language translation with only a few clicks.
For communities, creators, educators, businesses, and governments, this opens new pathways for communication, accessibility, and representation.

Mansa AI is live, scalable, and ready for real-world deployment. We are grateful for the thoughtful work Blackbird.io put into this collaboration, and we are excited about the new possibilities it unlocks across sectors. African languages belong in the digital future, and together we are building that future.