The 5th Hundzula NLP and Linguistics Retreat took place from 3–7 February 2026 at North-West University’s Mahikeng Campus, South Africa. The retreat aims to establish a networking and collaboration platform for both humanities and computer science researchers and enthusiasts through learning, teaching and supporting each other.
Computer scientists and linguists from various higher education institutions in Southern Africa, including participants from Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Tanzania and South Africa, used the event to share their own work, invite others to add value to their research through multidisciplinary projects, and discuss common issues across the field. The ethos of the event centres around open and shared discussions to promote the growth of southern African languages in natural language processing (NLP) and digital humanities.