TexaData

One corridor, two language systems, one operator.

Most suppliers who reach Africa reach anglophone Africa. Texa is founded across both — Nigerian-registered and Lagos-based, with the founder's own network running through francophone Cameroon. That is why the corridor below is a single operating plan rather than two unrelated markets.

A yellow danfo bus passing at speed, conductor in the doorway
Yellow buses lined along a road under a flyover
A market seen from above, dense with trading umbrellas
A barber cutting hair at a stand on the roadside
Hands beating the weft on a narrow kente loom
A welder at work on a kerb, a burst of sparks off the weld
LagosIbadanDoualaYaoundéAbujaKanoPort HarcourtCotonouLoméAccraKumasiAbidjanDakarLibrevilleKinshasa
Operating base — Lagos, Nigeria Founder network — Cameroon Corridor plan
A dense city quarter from the air, high-rises beyond
Lagos — operating base
Trading in the open beside a road
Corridor — capture environment

Languages in scope

LanguagePrincipal territoriesStatus
YorubaNigeria, Benin, TogoField capture, archive
HausaNorthern Nigeria, NigerArchive, field capture
IgboSouth-east NigeriaField capture
Nigerian PidginNigeria, CameroonField capture, archive
French (West/Central African)Cameroon, Côte d'Ivoire, SenegalArchive, field capture
LingalaDR Congo, CongoArchive
WolofSenegal, GambiaPlanned
Akan / TwiGhanaPlanned
FulfuldeSahel corridorPlanned
Douala / coastal CameroonLittoral CameroonField capture

Speakers by language

Approximate, all varieties, in millions
Nigerian Pidgin — approx. 120 million speakersNigerian Pidgin120MHausa — approx. 88 million speakersHausa88MYoruba — approx. 47 million speakersYoruba47MLingala — approx. 40 million speakersLingala40MFulfulde — approx. 37 million speakersFulfulde37MIgbo — approx. 31 million speakersIgbo31MAkan (Twi) — approx. 20 million speakersAkan (Twi)20MWolof — approx. 12 million speakersWolof12M
Estimates vary by source and by how varieties are counted; these are mid-range figures used for scale, not precision. The argument is the ratio between the speaker base and the licensed corpus available to train on.
Ikoyi from the air, rooftops and towers running to the lagoon
Lagos — the corridor from above · editorial