American School of Kinshasa American School of Kinshasa The American School of Kinshasa (TASOK) is an international, private, independent K-12 school in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, for students aged between 3 and 18 years. TASOK was founded in 1961 as "TASOL" for "The American School of Leopoldville", Leopoldville being the name of the capital of the newly independent Democratic Republic of the Congo. The "L" was amended to "K" when the name of the city was changed to Kinshasa in 1966. After independence in 1960, the Congolese schooling system entered into chaos, and many of the European schools that had catered to
Safwa City The city has a history of 6500 years and was also known as Darius, after Darius III. The city was named after Darius III, the king of Persia because he liked the city. Therefore, Safwa had been called Darius until the year 1945 "The Identity Year". In 1945, the Saudi government started to document the residents of the city and started documenting the demographics of the region. At that time the city was expanding, the old city there was called still Darius. However, Safwa became the popular name which was the word that people used to use for the pure