---
license: mit
task_categories:
  - text-classification
language:
  - en
  - sw
tags:
  - kenya
  - africa
  - legal
  - nlp
  - law
  - east-africa
  - constitution
pretty_name: Kenya Legal NLP
size_categories:
  - 1K<n<10K
---

# Kenya Legal NLP

NLP dataset for Kenya's legal and regulatory landscape: statutes, constitutional provisions, court decisions, and citizen rights — structured for AI systems supporting legal access in East Africa.

## Dataset Description

This dataset is part of the [East Africa AI coordination infrastructure](https://github.com/gabrielmahia) — a portfolio of open-source tools addressing structural gaps in AI coverage for Kenya and East Africa.

## Intended Use

- Training and fine-tuning language models for East African contexts
- Powering AI agents in the [MCP server ecosystem](https://pypi.org/user/gmahia/)
- Research into AI applications for the Global South
- Building civic technology tools for Kenya's 47 counties

## Data Sources

Data is sourced from public government records, open civic databases, and structured research. All data is labeled with source and confidence indicators.

## Citation

If you use this dataset, please cite:

```
@dataset{mahia2024kenyalegalnlp,
  title={Kenya Legal NLP},
  author={Gabriel Mahia},
  year={2024},
  publisher={HuggingFace},
  url={https://huggingface.co/datasets/gmahia/kenya-legal-nlp}
}
```

## Related Resources

- [MCP Servers for East Africa](https://glama.ai/mcp/servers?query=author:gabrielmahia)
- [GitHub Portfolio](https://github.com/gabrielmahia)
- [PyPI Packages](https://pypi.org/user/gmahia/)

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## Use this dataset with the coordination stack

- **Evaluate any model on Swahili agent tasks:** [kipimo](https://huggingface.co/datasets/gmahia/kipimo) — `pip install kipimo` · [leaderboard](https://huggingface.co/spaces/gmahia/kipimo-leaderboard)
- **Run the MCP servers this data serves:** `pip install reli-cli && reli list` — 33 servers on the [official MCP Registry](https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io) under `io.github.gabrielmahia`
- **Route tasks across servers:** [africa-coord-bus](https://pypi.org/project/africa-coord-bus/) — offline-first event bus with a built-in Kenya routing table
- **All East Africa datasets:** [huggingface.co/gmahia](https://huggingface.co/gmahia)

Open weights welcome: these resources are model-agnostic by design — closed APIs, open-weight
models (Kimi, GLM, DeepSeek, Nemotron, Llama), and small distilled models score on equal terms.
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