We report on work towards the creation of African Languages WordNet, comprised of interlinked semantic networks in several African languages that are known to have limited language resources. Adding these languages to the WordNet family will enable NLP applications for each of the languages in isolation. Moreover, linking the African Wordnets to one another and to the many global WordNets will make crosslinguistic information retrieval and question answering possible, and significantly aid machine translation. In this paper it is demonstrated how collaborative work between people, using existing tools, can contribute to the building of large text corpora and subsequently address the challenge of limited availability of language resources. The long term aim is the development of aligned WordNets for Bantu languages spoken in South Africa as multilingual knowledge resources which could be extended to include a wide variety of related languages from other parts of Africa.