
Home About People Program of Study Swahili Thingira Akwaaba Indaba Projects and Initiatives Contact Certificate Recipients Links	The Program in Swahili The Program in African Studies offers a four-term sequence of language instruction in Swahili. Completion of all four terms of the sequence will satisfy the University language requirement. Occasionally, more advanced courses also will be offered. The program emphasizes the skills of speaking, reading, and writing Swahili as well as the cultural context of the East African nations where Swahili is spoken. The program encourages students to consider study abroad during the school year or the summer to complement their language study. Princeton now offers intensive intermediate Swahili instruction during the summer at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. For more information, contact Rebecca Aguas. Courses include Elementary Swahili, SWA 101; Elementary Swahili II, SWA 102; Intermediate Swahili, SWA 105; and Intermediate Swahili II, SWA 107. Princeton in Dar es Salaam>> Faculty 2009-10 Mahiri Mwita is a lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature. Mwita’s research interests include culture-based interventions in counseling and education, authentic cultural performances and interactions in the African language classroom, internet and emerging technologies in African language pedagogy, and literary criticism and creative writing in Kiswahili. He is completing his Ph.D. on “Breaking Cultural Barriers of HIV/AIDS Intransigence: An Examination of Theater-Against-AIDS Interventions in Kenya” from the University of Dar es Salaam. As a theater practitioner, he studies and practices the process, impact, and best practices of popular theater as a culture-based tool for social/behavior change education against HIV/AIDS.

The Program in Swahili

The Program in African Studies offers a four-term sequence of language instruction in Swahili. Completion of all four terms of the sequence will satisfy the University language requirement. Occasionally, more advanced courses also will be offered. The program emphasizes the skills of speaking, reading, and writing Swahili as well as the cultural context of the East African nations where Swahili is spoken. The program encourages students to consider study abroad during the school year or the summer to complement their language study. Princeton now offers intensive intermediate Swahili instruction during the summer at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania. For more information, contact Rebecca Aguas.

Courses include Elementary Swahili, SWA 101; Elementary Swahili II, SWA 102; Intermediate Swahili, SWA 105; and Intermediate Swahili II, SWA 107.

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Faculty

2009-10

Mahiri Mwita is a lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature. Mwita’s research interests include culture-based interventions in counseling and education, authentic cultural performances and interactions in the African language classroom, internet and emerging technologies in African language pedagogy, and literary criticism and creative writing in Kiswahili. He is completing his Ph.D. on “Breaking Cultural Barriers of HIV/AIDS Intransigence: An Examination of Theater-Against-AIDS Interventions in Kenya” from the University of Dar es Salaam. As a theater practitioner, he studies and practices the process, impact, and best practices of popular theater as a culture-based tool for social/behavior change education against HIV/AIDS.