Everything a journalist, partner or platform needs to write about Afrilingua, Aura, Padi and Gist accurately: descriptions of every length, naming rules, founder bio, assets, and a contact.
Taiwo Raji, Founder — taiwo.raji@afrilingua.ai
Afrilingua, Aura, Padi and Gist all refer to different things. Please don't collapse them.
| Name | What it is | Use it for |
|---|---|---|
| Afrilingua | The app and platform. The thing the user installs. | App Store listing, home-screen icon, permission prompts, company name (Afrilingua AI). Tagline: "Where we gather." |
| Aura | The AI assistant inside Afrilingua. The product brand for everything intelligent. | Product copy ("Aura just drafted that"), the desktop nervous system, the browser extension (Aura Companion), the VS Code participant (@aura), the sandbox (Aura Code). |
| Padi | The persona and wake-word for Aura. West African Pidgin for friend. | "Hey Padi", "Ask Padi", warm conversational copy. Never a separate product name. |
| Gist | The social network inside Afrilingua. Federated on the AT Protocol. | "Posted on Gist", "their Gist profile", "Gist DMs", handles like @you.afrilingua.ai. |
African social life is currently rented. It runs on infrastructure built for somebody else, split across five apps owned by companies that do not know anyone is there. Afrilingua is the first place where all of it lives together and belongs to the people doing it.
It starts with the gathering, because the gathering is the thing African communities already do best. One object stretches from a house party to a festival: a page, tickets, a door, a run of show, and a room where the night gets photographed by everyone at once. Vendors, hotel blocks and meals sell through the same checkout as the pass.
What is left behind is a network. Gist is the social half, federated on the AT Protocol, where a handle reads @you.afrilingua.ai and follows are portable. Aura is the assistant half, across mobile, web, desktop, the browser and the IDE, and Padi is the persona it answers to — West African Pidgin for friend. Afrilingua AI is early, independent, and building it in the open.
Taiwo Raji is the founder of Afrilingua AI. He started Afrilingua to build the thing he wanted to use: one place where African gatherings, the people at them and the languages they happen in all live together — with memory you control and a social handle you own. African-rooted, globally built.
Contact: taiwo.raji@afrilingua.ai
Need vector files, dark/light variants, or per-product (Aura / Gist) marks? Email the press contact above — we'll send them direct.
The brand accent is gold, hue-locked to the logo. Red is not an action colour: it is confined to destructive actions and Aura's own chrome, and no partner surface should treat it as the brand. Both modes are shipped values — switch the row to read either.
Filled gold is a material: a curved metal surface catches light unevenly, and that spread is the whole effect. Collapsing it to the midpoint #CEAB64 gives the right hue and no luster — it reads as flat brown. Use the flat accent for hairlines, rules and 1 px edges; use one of these two ramps for anything filled.
Inter for UI and body. JetBrains Mono for code and handles.
| Do | Don't |
|---|---|
| "Afrilingua, the app, with Aura inside." | "The Aura app." Aura is inside Afrilingua, not the app itself. |
| "Afrilingua — where we gather." | "Afrilingua — your padi." That's Aura's line, not the platform's. |
| "Aura — your padi." | "Aura Padi." There is no compound name. |
| "Hey Padi…" | "The Padi app." There is no app called Padi. |
| "Posted on Gist." | "Posted on Aura." Posts live on Gist; Aura helps draft. |
| "Built by Afrilingua AI." | "Built by Jarvis." Jarvis is an internal codename and is not user-facing. |
@you.afrilingua.ai