Who runs the Kamusi Project?
The Kamusi Project Internet Living Swahili Dictionary is run independently under the auspices of the World Language Documentation Centre since 2007, after 12 years as a part of the Council on African Studies at Yale University. The project was conceived by the editor, Martin Benjamin, when he was a graduate student in anthropology at Yale. He and Ann Biersteker together prepared the project as a formal proposal in 1994. In December 1994 the project received initial support from the Yale Language Consortium Committee, the local arm of the eleven-university (Brown, Chicago, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, MIT, Penn, Princeton, Stanford, and Yale) Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning.
The full Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning then provided the Kamusi Project with a grant for graduate student staff from the summer of 1995 until 1997. In 1997 we received a three year grant from the United States Department of Education International Research and Studies program, and in 2003 we were awarded another two year grant. Staff have included: Basilio Mungania, Charles Mironko, Chege Githiora, Anne Geoghegan, Kabiri Ngeta, and Lauren Anderson. Dr. Joe Rodrigue was the project's lead computer programmer from 1998 through 2003, followed by Andrew Smith through 2006. Paa Kwesi Imbeah and Henry Addo now lead the project's computer programming. More details on the project staff can be found in the participants list.
Dr. Benjamin's primary research interests revolve around the relationships between rural Tanzanians, health, and international development aid.
 
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