The Department of Modern Foreign Languages was awarded its first Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant for the 2006-2007 academic year. Zablon Mgonja, our Fulbright Scholar, is from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and is a graduate of the University of Dar es Salaam. His areas of expertise are linguistics and geography. He is currently teaching two classes: one in Kiswahili and the other in Tanzanian culture. In December Fisk University held a reception in honor of the Tanzanian Ambassador to the United States, His Excellency Andrew Daraja, who was in Nashville to celebrate Tanzanian Independence Day with the Middle Tennessee Tanzanian Association. Ambassador Daraja visited our campus to meet with our Fulbright Scholar and the rest of the university community.