We offer four six-month courses in a year scheduled in January, April, August, and October with a maximum of eight students per class.
Our Cross-Cultural Communication Program is an intensive training course including Orientation to East African Culture, Swahili, and Ministry in Africa.
We are the Shade School of Language and Culture (SSLC), a cross-cultural communication institute dedicated to the teaching of Swahili, also known as Kiswahili to its native speakers.
Our mission is to help our students–missionaries sent out by mission organizations, para-church groups, NGOs, and individuals–acquire cultural and social skills in learning and speaking Kiswahili as a second language.
SSLC is situated in Brackenhurst, an international conference center in Tigoni on Limuru-Banana Road, 20 kilometers (about 15 miles) from downtown Nairobi, Kenya and approximately 40 kilometers from the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.