The Aga Khan Schools in Tanzania

22 January 2024
A journey of growth and environmental stewardship at the Arusha Climate and Environment Research Centre
From 10 to 15 January 2024, the Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School, Dar es Salaam’s Diploma Programme (DP) 2 class embarked on a remarkable journey to the Aga Khan University’s Arusha Climate and Environmental Centre (AKU-ACER), marking the culmination of their 18-month-long creativity, activity, service (CAS) adventure.
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03 January 2024
Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School, Dar es Salaam awards top-performing NECTA students
The Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School (AKMSS), Dar es Salaam has awarded 11 scholarships to standout Form 1 students studying under the National Examination Council Tanzania (NECTA) system for the 2024 academic year.
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08 December 2023
Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School, Dar es Salaam celebrates its Form 4 Class of 2023
On 1 December 2023, the Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School (AKMSS), Dar es Salaam held a graduation ceremony for its Form 4 students from the National Examinations Council of Tanzania (NECTA) curriculum.
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10 November 2023
Celebrating artistic excellence: The Aga Khan Nursery and Primary School, Dar es Salaam and the Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School, Dar es Salaam win first prize in local Peace Poster Contest
Students from the Aga Khan Nursery and Primary School (AKNPS), Dar es Salaam and the Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School (AKMSS), Dar es Salaam received the coveted first prize in the Lions Club of Dar es Salaam Tanzanites’ Peace Poster Contest, which was held under the theme, “DARE TO DREAM”.
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02 November 2023
Experiential adventure to Pugu Hills Forest Reserve
Grade 8 students at the Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School (AKMSS), Dar es Salaam had an experiential adventure trip to Pugu Hills Forest Reserve over two consecutive weekends in October. The trip provided students with a unique opportunity to engage in outdoor activities, develop essential life skills and foster new relationships.
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26 October 2023
Celebrating unity in diversity: Nurturing young global citizens at the Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School, Dar es Salaam
Recently, the Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School (AKMSS), Dar es Salaam celebrated United Nations (UN) Day. The school’s Creativity, Activity and Service (CAS) Coordinator, Nikita Gidwani reflects on the importance of the day’s events as well as the true testament of the school’s celebration of diversity, change and commitment to a better world.
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20 October 2023
Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School, Dar es Salaam: Debate champions
In October, the Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School (AKMSS), Dar es Salaam participated in the Mwalimu Nyerere Schools Invitational Debate Championship, which it has been consistently participating in over the past seven years.
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11 October 2023
Aga Khan Education Service, Tanzania triumphs at Morogoro International School Invitational Swimming Gala
The Aga Khan Education Service (AKES), Tanzania is proud to announce a spectacular victory at the prestigious Morogoro International School Invitational Swimming Gala on 6 and 7 October 2023.
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01 September 2023
“Better, always better”: Impact of an Aga Khan Schools education
Liberata Mulamula, Class of 1975, Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School, Dar es Salaam, has served her country far and wide for over 35 years, including as Minister of Foreign Affairs, Member of Parliament, Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Tanzanian Ambassador to the USA and Mexico. Poised, caring and approachable, she recalls with a deep laugh how AKMSS, Dar es Salaam was her first experience – “finally” – at co-ed schooling. The teachers there inspired her when they remarked how “the girls were equally good or even better than the boys”.
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01 September 2023
Celebrating impressive IGCSE results at the Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School, Dar es Salaam
Grade 11 students at the Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School (AKMSS), Dar es Salaam received remarkable International General Certificate of Secondary Education (IGCSE) results this week, exhibiting outstanding academic prowess. The phenomenal results highlighted the students’ exceptional perseverance, passion and hard work towards their academic goals.
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10 July 2023
Experiential learning at the Chitwan National Park in Nepal
Nikita Gidwani, the creativity, activity, service (CAS) coordinator and college guidance counsellor at the Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School, Dar es Salaam reflects on a trip she and a few students took to Nepal.
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26 May 2023
Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School, Dar es Salaam celebrates its Class of 2023
On Wednesday, 24 May, the stage was set to witness the momentous accomplishments of the Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School (AKMSS), Dar es Salaam’s Class of 2023 from the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme (DP), and the Form Six NECTA curriculum.
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17 May 2023
Aga Khan Nursery and Primary School, Dar es Salaam participates in Soma na Mti
On 12 May, the Aga Khan Nursery and Primary School, Dar es Salaam took part in “Soma na Mti”, a nationwide tree-planting initiative by the Tanzanian government aimed at promoting environmental awareness and encouraging schools to plant trees provided by the government.
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20 March 2023
PYP Exhibition at the Aga Khan Nursery and Primary School, Dar es Salaam
On 16 March, Grade 6 students at the Aga Khan Nursery and Primary School (AKNPS), Dar es Salaam participated in their annual Primary Years Programme (PYP) Exhibition.
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17 March 2023
STEAM Fair at the Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School, Dar es Salaam
On 13 March, Grades 7-10 students from the Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School (AKMSS), Dar es Salaam participated in a competitive Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics (STEAM) Fair at the school under the theme, "Recycle to Survive."
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24 February 2023
Aga Khan Nursery and Primary School, Dar es Salaam celebrate International Mother Language Day
From 21-24 February, students, teachers, support staff and parents at the Aga Khan Nursery and Primary School (AKNPS), Dar es Salaam celebrated International Mother Language Day with a week of activities to acknowledge and appreciate the value of all languages and how it shapes our identity and society as a whole.
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30 January 2023
Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School, Dar es Salaam hosts Sports Day
From 23-27 January, the Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School (AKMSS), Dar es Salaam hosted its first sports day since COVID-19.
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30 November 2022
Aga Khan Education Service, Tanzania establishes micro-forest
On 23 November 2022, the Aga Khan Education Service, Tanzania collaborated with the Aga Khan Foundation Tanzania and the Ismaili CIVIC to set up a micro-forest at the Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School (AKMSS), Dar es Salaam.
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20 October 2022
Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School, Dar es Salaam shines in debate tournaments
Twenty-two students from the Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School (AKMSS), Dar es Salaam participated in the Mwalimu Nyerere Schools Debate Championships from 15-16 October, in which they won 23 medals and five students got recognised as the ‘Best Speaker’.
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12 August 2022
The Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School, Dar es Salaam’s Class of 2022 receive best IB results to date
The Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School, Dar es Salaam’s Class of 2022 achieved the school’s best results ever in the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme (DP).
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31 May 2022
Aga Khan Nursery and Primary School, Dar es Salaam enhances its literacy programme
The Aga Khan Nursery and Primary School (AKNPS), Dar es Salaam have developed their literacy programme this academic year to ameliorate their students’ literacy skills.
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04 December 2020
Pluralism in Action: Students Celebrate One Another on United Nations Day
2020 marked the 75th anniversary of the United Nations and its founding Charter. In acknowledgement of the United Nations, the Nursery and Primary sections of the Aga Khan School in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania held a special event in October 2020
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28 May 2020
“Mom’s are like buttons – they hold everything together”
Mother’s day is celebrated around the world to honor motherhood and the value mothers add to our everyday lives
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26 May 2020
Mzizima Students Represent Tanzania on a Global Debating Stage
For the third consecutive year, students from the Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School (AKMSS) will be representing Tanzania in the World Schools Debating Championships
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20 May 2020
Earth day the virtual way
On April 22nd, 2020, people all over the world gathered to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Earth Day.
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18 May 2020
A Cultural Gateway: Celebrating International Mother Tongue Day
“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his own language, that goes to his heart.” Nelson Mandela
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03 March 2020
Dar-Open Debate Champs: “Opportunities don’t happen. You create them.”
Walt Disney, one of the pioneers of the American animation industry once said ‘If you can dream it, you can do it’.
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16 April 2019
AKMSS shines at the 9th Annual Darmun Conference
A one of a kind Dar-es-Salaam Model United Nations (DARMUN) conference with the theme, "Development for Sustainability", was hosted by The International School of Tanganyika (IST).
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11 April 2019
A Night of Talent
The Aga Khan Primary School (AKPS) held a school-wide Talent Night on 1st March 2019 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
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28 November 2018
Away Mosquitos
As the seasons changed, a swarm of mosquitoes engulfed the areas around the Aga Khan Nursery and Primary School (AKNPS), Dar-es-Salaam, which left many Grade 3 students worried. From their science class, they knew the increasing number of mosquitoes in a place they spent most of their days could become a health hazard.
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01 November 2018
Aga Khan Football Team Shines at Tournament
The Aga Khan Primary School (AKPS) under 9 and 11 boys participated in the Magnet Sports for All Star Tournament that was held at Jakaya Kikwete Youth Park in Dar es Salaam on 20th October 2018.
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03 May 2018
Mzizima hails victorious at the The World Scholar’s Cup
Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School was the most outstanding school in the World Scholar’s Cup (WSC), Regional Round winning over two hundred trophies and medals.
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14 December 2017
Aga Khan primary student Champions Swimming Competition
Ralph Sereki, a Grade 4 student at the Aga Khan Nursery and Primary School, Dar es Salaam, participated in the Tanzania Open Swimming Championship which took place in Mwanza, Tanzania on 22nd and 23rd September.
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09 July 2017
Former President Mkapa visits Grade 6 PYP Exhibition in Tanzania
Recently, the Grade 6 students at Aga Khan Nursery and Primary School (AKNPS) celebrated the end of their journey as PYP learners by hosting the 2017 PYP Exhibition, in the presence of family, friends, and colleagues.
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14 December 2016
Sports Day
All students were involved in various sports activities including relay races - 800m, 600m, 400m, 200m and 100m and 60m for junior students.
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10 November 2016
AKMSSMUN (Model United Nations)
Once a year, AKMSSMUN (Model United Nations) delegates are given the opportunity to attend an international conference.
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05 October 2016
Teacher’s day
Teacher’s day is celebrated to honor the hard work of our teachers and acknowledge their accomplishments.
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30 September 2016
Aga Khan School Tanzania Swimmer hailed victorious at Rio Olympics
Hilal Hemed Hilal had an impressive performance at the Aquatics Stadium during the 2016 Rio Olympics.
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23 April 2016
DARMUN 2016
On 23rd of April, Aga Khan Mzizima sent 23 students along with the MUN Director Ms. Hetal Chandaria to participate in the 6th annual DARMUN conference hosted by IST.
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