In today’s digital multilingual world, language technology is crucial for providing access to information and opportunities for economic development. With approximately two thousand different languages, Africa is a multilingual continent par excellence, presenting acute challenges for those seeking to promote and use African languages in the areas of business development, education and relief aid. In recent times a number of researchers and institutions, both from Africa and elsewhere, have come forward to share the common goal of developing capabilities in language technology for African languages. In 2009 and 2010, the first two workshops on African Language Technology were organized (De Pauw et al. 2009, 2010a) as a forum to bring together a wide range of researchers working in this domain.