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NaijaBot 🇳🇬💬

"E no hard to yarn Naijá — make we do am together!"

A multi-mode AI chatbot that speaks Nigerian Pidgin English (Naija) natively built for culture, conversation, storytelling, and language learning.

🎛️ Modes

ModeWhat e do
General ChatYarn, joke, and translate in Pidgin
Nigerian CultureDeep dives on food, music, history & Nollywood
Folktales & ProverbsNigerian folktales and proverbs told in vivid Pidgin
Pidgin TutorStep-by-step lessons for learning Naijá

🚀 How to Use

  1. 1.Open ⚙️ Settings and paste your OpenAI API key
  2. 2.Pick a mode from the dropdown
  3. 3.Click a starter prompt or type your own
  4. 4.Start yarning! 🎉
Your API key is never stored or logged — it lives only in your browser session.

🌍 Why This Matters

Nigerian Pidgin (Naija) is spoken by an estimated 75–100 million people across Nigeria, making it one of the most widely used contact languages in Africa yet it remains severely underrepresented in NLP research and language technology.

This project is a small step toward changing that.

🛠️ Stack

  • —🐍 Python
  • —🎨 Gradio — UI
  • —🤖 OpenAI GPT-4o-mini — language model
  • —🤗 Hugging Face Spaces — deployment

👩🏾‍💻 Author

Built by Joy Olusanya — NLP Researcher specialising in low-resource languages and African language technologies.

![LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/joy-olusanya-209340206/)

Abeg give am a ⭐ if you like am!