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dataset_info:
  - config_name: Akan_Twi_dev
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license: cc-by-nc-4.0
size_categories:
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task_categories:
  - image-text-to-text
  - audio-text-to-text
  - question-answering
pretty_name: 'Afri-MCQA: Multimodal Cultural Question Answering for African Languages'
tags:
  - multimodal
  - african-languages
  - vqa
  - low-resource languages
  - multilingual

Afri-MCQA: Multimodal Cultural Question Answering for African Languages

Paper

Overview

Afri-MCQA is the first multilingual cultural question-answering benchmark covering 8k Q&A pairs across 16 African languages from 13 countries. The benchmark offers parallel English-African language Q&A pairs across text and speech modalities, entirely created by native speakers.

Supported Tasks

  • Visual Question Answering (VQA): Multiple-choice and open-ended QA grounded in culturally relevant images
  • Visual Audio Question Answering: Speech-based QA grounded in culturally relevant images in native African languages and African-accented English
  • Language Identification (LID): Identifying which of the 15 languages is spoken
  • Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR): Transcribing spoken African language audio

Languages

Language - Country Language Family Region
Akan/Twi - Ghana Niger-Congo / Volta-Niger West
Amharic - Ethiopia Afro-Asiatic / Ethio-Semitic East
Chichewa - Malawi Niger-Congo / Bantu South & East
Hausa - Nigeria Afro-Asiatic / Chadic West
Igbo - Nigeria Niger-Congo / Volta-Niger West
Kikuyu - Kenya Niger-Congo / Bantu East
Kinyarwanda - Rwanda Niger-Congo / Bantu East
Lingala - DRC Niger–Congo/ Bantu Central Africa
Luganda - Uganda Niger-Congo / Bantu East
Oromo - Ethiopia Afro-Asiatic / Cushitic East
Setswana - Botswana Niger-Congo / Bantu South
Somali - Somalia Afro-Asiatic / Cushitic East
Tigrinya - Eritrea Afro-Asiatic / Ethio-Semitic East
Yoruba - Nigeria Niger-Congo / Volta-Niger West
Sesotho - Lesotho Niger-Congo / Bantu South
Zulu - South Africa Niger-Congo / Bantu South

Total speaker population: ~412.6 million

Dataset Structure

Each sample includes:

  • image: Culturally relevant image
  • question_english / question_native: Question in both languages
  • options_english / options_native: Four multiple-choice options
  • answer: Correct answer
  • audio_question_english / audio_question_native: Audio recordings
  • category: One of 10 cultural categories
  • country / language: Origin metadata

Cultural Categories

🏛️ Geography & Landmarks | 👤 Public Figures & Pop Culture | 🍲 Cooking & Food | 👕 Objects & Clothing |🎭 Traditions & History | 🏢 Brands & Companies | 🌿 Plants & Animals | 👨‍👩‍👧 People & Everyday Life | 🚗 Vehicles & Transportation | ⚽ Sports & Recreation

Licensing

This dataset is released under CC-BY-NC-4.0.

Usage

from datasets import load_dataset

# Per language
amharic_dev = load_dataset("Atnafu/Afri-MCQA", "Amharic_dev", split="dev")
amharic_test = load_dataset("Atnafu/Afri-MCQA", "Amharic_test", split="test")

# All languages grouped
all_dev = load_dataset("Atnafu/Afri-MCQA", "all_dev", split="dev")
all_test = load_dataset("Atnafu/Afri-MCQA", "all_test", split="test")

Citation

 @inproceedings{tonja-etal-2026-afri,
    title = "Afri-{MCQA}: Multimodal Cultural Question Answering for {A}frican Languages",
    author = "Tonja, Atnafu Lambebo  and
      Anand, Srija  and
      Villa-Cueva, Emilio  and
      Azime, Israel Abebe  and
      Alabi, Jesujoba Oluwadara  and
      Mohamed, Muhidin A.  and
      Yadeta, Debela Desalegn  and
      Abadi, Negasi Haile  and
      Oppong, Abigail  and
      Obiefuna, Nnaemeka Casmir  and
      Abdulmumin, Idris  and
      Etori, Naome A  and
      Wairagala, Eric Peter  and
      Tshinu, Kanda Patrick  and
      Emmanuel, Imanigirimbabazi  and
      Malema, Gabofetswe  and
      Aji, Alham Fikri  and
      Adelani, David Ifeoluwa  and
      Solorio, Thamar",
    editor = "Liakata, Maria  and
      Moreira, Viviane P.  and
      Zhang, Jiajun  and
      Jurgens, David",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 64th Annual Meeting of the {A}ssociation for {C}omputational {L}inguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)",
    month = jul,
    year = "2026",
    address = "San Diego, California, United States",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2026.acl-long.1869/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2026.acl-long.1869",
    pages = "40249--40282",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-390-6",
    abstract = "Africa is home to over one-third of the world{'}s languages, yet remains severely underrepresented in multimodal AI research. We introduce Afri-MCQA, the first Multilingual Cultural Question-Answering benchmark containing 7.5k Q A pairs across 15 African languages from 12 countries. The benchmark offers parallel text and speech modalities and was entirely created by native speakers. We find that models show poor performance across evaluated cultures, with near-zero accuracy on open-ended VQA when queried through native language or speech. To test linguistic competence, we include control experiments meant to assess this specific aspect separate from cultural knowledge, and we observe significant performance gaps between native languages and English for both text and speech. These findings underscore the pressing need for speech-first approaches, culturally grounded pretraining, and cross-lingual cultural transfer. We release Afri-MCQA to support more inclusive multimodal AI development."
}