Hausa is spoken by close to 94 million people in Nigeria alone, with tens of millions more across Niger and the wider Sahel. Nature has reported that ChatGPT and LLMs correctly understands only 10 to 20 percent of sentences written in Hausa. I've spent the last three years trying to close that gap. First alone, then with a community I founded in Bauchi State that's since grown past 500 people. This isn't really a project retrospective. It's an honest account of what it actually takes to build...