The app, called Afro Emoji, features phrases that are used everyday on the continent. These include "Abeg no vex" (Please, don't be annoyed), "E make brain" (It makes sense) and "My Oga at the top" (My boss at the top).
Pairing together the digital world with an African voice, Afro emoji lets users send stickers via a variety of messaging apps and is is free for on Android and iOS.
We, as Africans, definitely have an idiosyncratic way of communicating with one another," Afro Emoji team leader Ayoola Daramola told CNN.
"This is really a fun, accessible graphic depiction of that. For a continent of almost 1 billion, we are woefully represented and this really grated with me, so I decided to do something about it,"
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