Lugha-LLaMA is a groundbreaking language model developed by researchers at Princeton University to improve AI support for African languages, many of which have historically been underserved by large language models. By combining carefully curated African language datasets with high-quality English educational materials, Lugha-LLaMA significantly improves language understanding and reasoning tasks. It outperforms baseline models on major multilingual benchmarks, including IrokoBench and AfriQA, particularly excelling in knowledge-intensive tasks.