Chairman, Department of Kiswahili, Prof. Mwangi  Iribe has been awarded the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship.

Prof. Iribe’s proposal, “Collaborative Research and Graduate Training and/or Mentoring: Interdisciplinary Focus on Language Contact‚ Migration‚ Innovation‚ and Identity’” was done in collaboration with Prof. Mungai Mutonya of Washington University in St. Louis.

Reacting to the news, Prof. Iribe said, “the process is very competitive and we won it after several competitive rounds of evaluation.”

“We were to start this year but due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we will commence next year.” He added.

Funded by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York (CCNY). The Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP) is a scholar fellowship program for educational projects at African higher education institutions.