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I am a PhD candidate in the Cognitive Systems Program at the Department of Linguistics, University of British Columbia (UBC). I am a member of the Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing Group, working under the supervision of Professor Abdul Mageed. I am also currently a UBC Public Scholar and an associate member of the African Languages Technology Initiative (ALT-i) in Nigeria. For my PhD dissertation, I am developing deep learning technologies for African Languages and I'm engaged in work to make "computers usable in African languages". In my research, I advocate for Afrocentric NLP for African languages, in order to ensure that the unique features of African languages which distinguish them from Indo-European languages are properly modelled in language technologies developed for African languages.