Rooted here. Built for everywhere.

Apha Lingo is a Nairobi-based translation, localization, and language AI company. We translate and localize content from English into the major languages of East Africa — Swahili, Amharic, Lingala, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Somali, and Kenyan languages such as Dholuo, Kikuyu, and Kikamba — so your message reads and feels native to the people who receive it.

Our work spans four practices. Human translation covers documents, marketing, education, and software. Localization adapts apps, websites, and campaigns for East African audiences — UI strings, tone, and cultural references included. Our language AI practice builds the corpora, datasets, and evaluations that let large language models serve indigenous languages well. And our football analytics practice brings rigorous, locally grounded data insight to African football.

Apha Lingo is built for organizations that need more than machine translation: IT and software teams localizing products for the region, legal practices handling cross-border work, schools and universities producing learning materials, NGOs and development organizations, and brands entering East Africa for the first time.

We are built by a Nairobi-based team of native-speaker linguists, localization engineers, and language-data specialists. Being rooted here means we understand the languages, the cultures, and the context. Being built for everywhere means we deliver to international standards of quality, confidentiality, and turnaround.