Africa's data
is the story.
Nubia tells it.
The journalism and data intelligence platform built on Africa. For reporters, editors, and data-led content creators who believe the continent's most important stories are hiding inside datasets no one has learned to read yet.
Built on a decade of African data intelligence, not borrowed infrastructure
Most AI journalism tools are generic language models dressed in newsroom clothing. Nubia is different because Dataphyte has spent over five years mining public African socioeconomic data, building a research methodology that combines human intelligence and OSINT, and partnering with established African media institutions.
That means when Nubia generates a story from a Nigerian budget dataset or a geospatial conflict record, it draws on 25 years of local news content from editorial partners including Business Day, Daily Trust, and Order Paper — context that no international AI platform has or can replicate quickly.
The data infrastructure underneath Nubia is the same infrastructure Dataphyte uses for its own research across health, governance, security, agriculture, and economic policy. You are not getting an AI wrapper. You are getting access to a data organisation's operating layer.
One ecosystem. Two access modes.
Whether your newsroom wants to produce data-driven journalism or receive it, Nubia is built for both — and the two work better together.
The Platform
Upload your data, and Nubia does the analytical heavy lifting. Generate editorial-grade stories, investigative briefs, visualisations, and interactive narratives from any public or proprietary dataset — trained to understand African governance, fiscal, and socioeconomic contexts.
- Analyse PDFs, CSVs, scanned documents, GeoJSON, and audio recordings
- Generate editorial-style stories, scripts, explainers, and policy briefs
- Smart charts, timelines, geographic maps, and custom infographics
- Train Nubia on your newsroom's editorial style and voice
- Semantic search across your document library
- Civic-tech ready: procurement data, beneficial ownership, open budgets
The Wire Service
A continuous feed of data-driven, Africa-focused journalism ready to publish, adapt, or syndicate. NANA fills the geographic and contextual gap that AP, Reuters, and AFP leave open — giving your publication credible, evidence-based African coverage without correspondent overhead.
- Newsroom-grade stories generated from verified African datasets
- Multilingual content including Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Pidgin, and Swahili
- Location-specific and hyperlocal insights across African localities
- API-compatible with major newsroom content management systems
- Policy analysis and evidence-based insights for specialist coverage
- Customisable format: text, infographic, audio scripts, or interactive
actually does
Nubia AI is not a general-purpose AI content generator. It is a journalism intelligence platform trained on African contexts — governance structures, fiscal data formats, socioeconomic indicators, conflict datasets, and editorial standards developed in African newsrooms over decades.
Every feature is designed around a single question: what does a data journalist need to turn a complex African dataset into a story that holds decision-makers accountable?
Analyse any data format
PDFs, scanned tables, CSVs, GeoJSON, audio recordings, and images of handwritten data. Nubia converts them into clean structured data before analysis begins.
Generate newsroom-grade stories
Editorial-style articles, investigative briefs, explainers, policy analysis, and broadcast scripts — calibrated to your publication's voice and editorial standards.
Smart visualisations
Charts, mind-maps, timelines, geographic visualisations, and custom infographics generated directly from your uploaded data, publication-ready.
Retrieval-augmented generation
Nubia's AI is trained on AfricMINT — African mainstream and independent news texts — plus five years of socioeconomic datasets, giving its outputs genuine local context rather than hallucinated generalisation.
Custom newsroom training
Train Nubia on past articles from your newsroom to match your preferred editorial tone, structure, and voice. What it produces sounds like your publication, not a template.
Civic-tech and open data
Built for procurement transparency, beneficial ownership data, budget tracking, and open data platforms. Nubia understands the formats these datasets come in and the stories they can tell.
Semantic search
Find relevant facts and patterns across your entire document library using natural language queries — no need to remember which file contains what.
Multilingual output
Generate content in African languages including Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Pidgin, and Swahili — reaching audiences that English-only journalism consistently misses.
Data Engine API
A secure, subscription-based data engine that supplies trusted datasets and integrates with your existing platforms — with authentication and authorisation controls.Coming soon
In Nigeria's Middle Belt, Where Faiths Meet, Per-Capita Risk of Religious Violence Soars
Five years of ground-level event data tells a stark, often-misinterpreted truth: Nigeria's most intense religious-site violence hits the mixed communities where Muslims and Christians live side by side — not the single-faith majority areas that dominate national headlines.
Stories that could not exist without data intelligence
The article to the left was generated by Nubia AI from five years of ACLED conflict event data. It challenges the dominant narrative around Nigeria's religious violence through proportional, population-normalised analysis — the kind of insight that aggregate headlines and wire service event coverage consistently miss.
This is the proof. Not a feature description. An actual story, publishable today, that rewrites the policy conversation around one of Nigeria's most misunderstood crises.
See more examples →Built for the organisations that make African data matter
Journalism first. But also for every researcher, analyst, podcaster, newsletter writer, and data-driven content creator whose audience deserves better Africa coverage than the generic wire provides.
Investigative Newsrooms
Reduce days of data analysis to minutes. Identify patterns, gaps, and leads in complex datasets before your competition finds the story.
Diaspora and International Media
Fill the Africa content gap your audience feels acutely. Subscribe to NANA and publish data-grounded stories on the continent your readers care about — without correspondent costs.
Freelance Data Journalists
Access tools and data infrastructure previously available only to well-resourced newsrooms. Publish Yoruba, Hausa, or Igbo-language data stories that reach audiences no English platform serves.
Data-Led Content Creators
Podcasters, Substack writers, YouTube explainers, and newsletter editors who anchor Africa conversation in evidence. Use Nubia AI to find the data angle in the stories your audience is already asking about.
Think Tanks and Research Organisations
Transform raw research outputs into accessible, shareable reports and policy briefs that reach beyond academic audiences and into public and government decision-making.
Civil Society Organisations
Make public accountability data accessible to the communities it concerns. Generate clear, multilingual narratives from procurement records, budget data, and development indicators.
Government and Policy Bodies
Extract predictive and actionable insights from fiscal, geospatial, and socioeconomic datasets. Nubia's policy analytics layer converts public data into briefings that inform real decisions on health, agriculture, security, and climate.
Developers and Platform Builders
Integrate African data intelligence directly into your products via the Nubia Data Engine API. Fiscal, geospatial, and consumer datasets delivered programmatically, with authentication and access controls built in.
The African wire service your newsroom has been missing
AP, Reuters, and AFP cover Africa through a crisis lens, episodically and without the data depth that drives real audience understanding. NANA — the News Agency for Niche Africa — is a continuous, AI-powered feed of evidence-based African journalism built for newsrooms that serve audiences with genuine stakes in the continent's story.
- Ready to publish. Newsroom-grade stories, briefs, and explainers generated from verified African datasets and delivered in your preferred format.
- Genuinely local. Hyperlocal, LGA-level, and country-specific content that reflects the complexity of African localities — not continent-wide generalisations.
- Multilingual by design. Content available in Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Pidgin, Swahili, and English — reaching the audiences your coverage is actually about.
- API-compatible. Integrate NANA's content feed directly into your existing CMS through standardised editorial APIs, with no manual workflow disruption.
- Evidence, not events. Where other agencies report what happened, NANA explains what the data shows — filling the contextual gap that drives audience trust.
Nigeria's healthcare capital allocation falls 12% in real terms despite record total budget
Analysis of FY2025 appropriations data reveals inflation-adjusted decline across 23 states
Middle Belt LGAs carry conflict burden 3x higher than national average, per-capita analysis shows
Five-year ACLED dataset reveals underreported risk concentration in mixed-faith communities
UK-Nigeria remittance corridor: £2.1bn annual flow, 87% channelled through informal networks
New dataset maps transfer cost disparities by UK city and Nigerian receiving region
Procurement concentration: 68% of infrastructure contracts in three states trace to 14 companies
Beneficial ownership analysis of 2023–2024 federal contracts database
African data,
programmable.
The same African socioeconomic, geospatial, and fiscal datasets that power Nubia AI — now accessible via a clean, authenticated API for developers, platforms, and organisations that want to embed African data intelligence directly into their own products.
Whether you are building a transparency dashboard, a market intelligence tool, a content platform for African diaspora audiences, or a policy analytics layer for government — the Data Engine provides the data substrate, with access controls and authentication built in.
NubiaMetrix:
Audiences traditional
systems cannot see
African broadcasters reach hundreds of millions of listeners weekly through radio, TV, and community media — but operate without reliable audience data. Western measurement tools ignore indigenous-language engagement. Advertisers are demanding better. NubiaMetrix is the answer: a multilingual audience intelligence platform that analyses real engagement across radio call-ins, WhatsApp, and social platforms in Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Pidgin, and beyond.
Africa's data is waiting.
Who tells the story?
The continent generates more socioeconomic data than any news organisation currently has the capacity to analyse. Nubia was built to change that — for the newsrooms, researchers, and civil society organisations doing the work that matters.
No credit card required to start. Newsroom plans available. Contact us for enterprise pricing.