Question 1

What is Afrilingua?

Accepted Answer

Afrilingua is a home for African life online, on the continent and across the diaspora. Events lets organisers host gatherings and sell passes, meals and booths. Market gives sellers a real shop. Circles gives associations and groups a lasting home. Gist brings social publishing under one handle, and Arcade holds the games people grew up on. Aura helps inside each space as the app's AI assistant.

Question 2

What is Gist?

Accepted Answer

Gist is the social network inside Afrilingua, and the place you connect the accounts you already have. Link Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, X and more: a post here goes out to them, they are listed on your page, and your own TikTok, Instagram and YouTube posts can be pulled onto it. Cross-posting runs one way, out — replies on those networks stay there. It runs on the AT Protocol, the same open protocol that powers Bluesky, so it federates with the wider ATmosphere. Your handle is @you.afrilingua.ai and your posts, follows and DMs are portable records you own.

Question 3

What games can I play on Afrilingua?

Accepted Answer

The Afrilingua Arcade has ten classic African games: Whot, Ayo (Oware), Ludo, Draughts, Dara, Morabaraba, Paperball, Biro Boxing, Accro and Jackpot. You can play a move a day or sit down and finish a game, play inside a community, take a per-game rating, and enter knockout tournaments. Games are free to play; you can optionally stake cowries, which are earned points that cannot be bought and never convert to cash.

Question 4

What is Sabi Market?

Accepted Answer

Sabi Market is a prediction game played with cowries, Afrilingua's earned points currency. It is pari-mutuel: you stake YES or NO into a shared pool and the winners split the losing pool, with a 10% rake burned. Because cowries can never be purchased and are never redeemable for money, Sabi is a free-to-play prediction game rather than betting. Markets cover football, music and culture, and communities can open bets for their own members.

Question 5

Can I sell tickets to my event on Afrilingua?

Accepted Answer

Yes. You can sell tickets with priced tiers, capacity limits and group buys, run a FIFO waitlist that automatically offers released seats to the next person in line, and check guests in by QR code from any phone. Free events — RSVP, capacity, waitlist and check-in — cost nothing. Paid tickets on the card rail are 5% + $0.49 per ticket; card processing is absorbed by the platform rather than added on top, the buyer sees one all-in price, and you choose whether the attendee or the organiser bears the fee. Payouts settle into your own connected Stripe account.

Question 6

How does Afrilingua protect my data?

Accepted Answer

Every user gets an isolated personal knowledge graph keyed on their account. All third-party access and refresh tokens are encrypted at rest with Fernet symmetric encryption. Every write action by Aura passes through a confirmation gate before it runs. We do not sell personal data, do not share it with advertisers, and do not use it to train foundation models without explicit, separate consent.

Question 7

Who builds Afrilingua?

Accepted Answer

Afrilingua is built by Afrilingua AI, an African-founded company. The founder is Taiwo Raji.

A home for African life.
On the continent. Across the diaspora. Scattered everywhere.
Together here.

Your people. Your page.
Where we gather.

A home for African life. On the continent. Across the diaspora. Scattered everywhere. Together here.

Your people. Your page.Where we gather.

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A home for African life.
On the continent. Across the diaspora. Scattered everywhere.
Together here.

Your people. Your page.
Where we gather.