TukaBench: A Culturally Grounded Jailbreak Benchmark for African Languages
Safety evaluation of Large Language Models (LLMs) remains heavily English-centric, leaving Low-Resource Languages (LRLs), particularly African ones, critically underexplored. We introduce TUKABENCH, a jailbreak benchmark for seven African languages that extends JailbreakBench (JBB) beyond direct translation through four settings: human translation of JBB prompts, English adaptation to African contexts followed by human translation, human-curated prompts validated through interactions with GPT-5.2, and code-switched prompts combining English and African languages, isolating the effect of language, cultural grounding, and prompt evasiveness on model safety. Across closed and open models, pr...
| Authors | Victor Akinode, Senyu Li, Wassim Hamidouche et al. |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 31 May 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 22 September 2026 |
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