Epistemic Exclusion of the Hausa Language in AI Safety

Published on June 15, 2026 2:02 PM GMTI. I was sitting with a pamphlet in front of me, an AI safety awareness flyer we were preparing for a project called Safer Schools, Safer Communities, designed to be printed and displayed as posters in schools and community spaces across northern Nigeria. My job was to translate it into Hausa so that the students, teachers, and community members who walked past it every day could actually read it and understand it.I got stuck almost immediately.Not because t...