Students explore language, culture in Dar es Salaam

By Danielle Alio, Office of Communications on Oct. 16, 2014, 5:43 p.m.
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Princeton in Dar es Salaam is a summer study-abroad program that offers Princeton students an intensive experience combining in-class Swahili language study with immersion in the daily life and culture of the Swahili-speakers in the city of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The program, based in the Institute of Kiswahili Studies at the University of Dar es Salaam, is designed in the spirit of Princeton University’s commitment to providing high quality opportunities that allow its undergraduates to encounter firsthand the peoples, culture and contemporary concerns of other regions of the world.

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