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We invited members of Masakhane, Tosin Adewumi and Perez Ogayo, to talk about their EMNLP Findings paper that discusses why typical research is limited for low-resourced NLP and how participatory research can help. \xa0\n\nAs a result of participatory research, Masakhane has many, many success stories: first datasets and benchmarks in African languages, first research on human evaluation specifically for MT for low-resource languages, etc. In this episode, we talked about one of them\u2014MasakhaNER\u2014in more detail.\n\nThe hosts for this episode are Pradeep Dasigi and Ana Marasovi\u0107.\n\n--------------------------\n\nTosin Adewumi is a PhD student at the Lule\xe5 University of Technology in Sweden. His Twitter handle: @tosintwit\n\nPerez Ogayo is an undergrad student at the African Leadership University in Rwanda. Her Twitter handle: @a_ogayo\n\nMasakhane is a grassroots organization whose mission is to strengthen and spur NLP research in African languages, for Africans, by Africans: https://www.masakhane.io/\n\nParticipatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages (Findings of EMNLP 2020): https://arxiv.org/abs/2010.02353\n\nMasakhaNER: Named Entity Recognition for African languages (AfricaNLP Workshop @ EACL 2021): https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.11811