In collaboration with Google, Zindi hosted the Google NLP Hack Series, Intro to ASR Africa Challenge. Zindians were to submit datasets in their own languages for use in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). The aim of this challenge was to collect written and spoken language data to create a speech corpus that can be used to train an ASR model in a beginner-friendly way. There were many submissions of different languages and we are glad that this work also helps to preserve the local African languages.