The Kamusi Project began in 1994 with the development of the Internet Living Swahili Dictionary, the first online resource for an African language.

The project now has two principle foci, a unified general dictionary for African languages called PALDO (the Pan-African Living Dictionary Online), and specialized terminology development through KamusiTERMS (Kamusi for Technology, Economy, Rights, Medicine, and Science).

• PALDO will bring together numerous languages within the rubric initially created for Swahili, which will be highlighted in a study of bilingual dictionaries created with Title VI support from the US Department of Education.
• KamusiTERMS began with a large Information Technology terminology set for 10 African languages in addition to English and French.

Both elements build on a unique model of scholarly guidance and community input toward achieving our goal: Every word in Africa.