We at Google.org (the philantrhopic arm of Google) are working with our Google colleagues to try and improve our machine translation abilities in a variety of African languages (where we're currently under-represented). To start, we're hoping to improve our ability to translate English text to Swahili and visa-versa. We currently support a host of European languages and Asian language, link available here.

Our corpus of identical text in English and Swahili is pretty limited. We typically like to have at least a million words of high quality translated text for our machine learning tools to get going in earnest. It could be academic papers, books, laws, stories, dictionaries, etc, that are available in both language. Happy to give attribution where it makes sense but this is not a revenue driving priority for us. It's part of what we do to try and provide a valuable service to users. Thanks in advance for your help and advice.