The primary goal of the MIAS program, a postgraduate program,  is to teach, systematically, contemporary cultures and religion of East Africa in such a way that students begin to appropriate and articulate an African perspective on these realities. It is designed for the following types of postgraduate students: 1) indigenous and missionary personnel including priests, sisters, seminarians, and laity assigned to apostolates in East Africa and NGO personnel for primary acculturation and/or updating, 2) African students, and African pastoral and developmental agents for systematic introduction and/or updating in contemporary African life and reality, 3) neophyte lecturers and students from outside Africa for primary acculturation.  The African students, who make up close to half of the student body, are challenged to understand and articulate as adults the rich cultural heritage that is theirs by reason of birth, the non-African students are challenged to learn African Cultural Knowledge in a systematic, formal manner to that they can interact with African people as adults in an African cultural milieu.

The  programme is designed to meet the needs of both degree students and continuing education students. The program is ecumenical and open to students of all faiths. It is sponsored by the Africa Area of the Maryknoll Fathers & Brothers and is affiliated academically with Saint Mary's University of Minnesota /USA which registers the courses, generates the transcripts,  and grants both a Master of Arts (MA) degree in African Studies, and a Masters of African Studies (MAS) degree, and Tangaza College, Nairobi, Kenya which grants Certificates and Diplomas in African Studies.  The program was developed as a response to the need for a contextualized approach to teaching cultures and religion of Africa, and training bi-cultural pastoral and developmental agents in Africa.

Kindly browse the program's website http://www.mias.edu/ for full details. The pages of the website are listed below.

For more information contact: inquiries@tangaza.org

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