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arXiv · November 4, 2026
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Multilingual benchmarks for African languages mostly translate generic questions into local languages, measuring linguistic competence but not whether models know facts about Africa. We introduce \naija, a benchmark of factual and statistical questions about Nigeria, authored by native speakers and grounded in authoritative official statistics, with every question available in English, Nigerian Pidgin, \yoruba, Igbo, and Hausa. Answering similar questions for the UK and US yields a country by language matrix that disentangles a language effect (the model knows the fact but degrades in a low-resource language) from a knowledge effect (the fact is absent in every language). Across eight frontier and Nigeria-adapted models, the knowledge effect dominates: English-query accuracy is 49--50\% for the US/UK but 20\% for Nigeria. The language effect is smaller and tracks web representation, degrading from English to \yoruba{} (9 points on Nigeria, up to 24 on US/UK questions). We find scale does not help: the strongest models reach 66--79\% on the UK and the US but none exceed 31\% on Nigerian statistics. Extending to all 54 African countries with our best performing frontier model shows the same profile continent-wide, 96\% on culture and 98\% on politics against 26\% on statistics, so the gap is not specific to Nigeria.