About BangoSangho
An Endeavor To Bring Us Together!

The Bengali Association of Dar-Es-Salaam, BangoSangho is a non profit organization based in Tanzania, East Africa.

The saga of BangoSangho does not end unless we look back at the days of its inception and express our gratitude to our veterans like Dr. D.K Sengupta, Dr. Dastidar and many others who took the effort to transform an informal group of genetically compelled chat lovers to a full fledged Association of BangoSangho.

This event traces back to the mid 70’s (Nov 1975) when 35 Bengali families based on this far off land took the initiative to form an association, which they endearingly called "BangoSangho".

Since its inception it has been promoting Bengali culture and heritage through hosting different cultural and social events throughout the Bengali calendar year. Durgapuja, Saraswati Puja, Poila Baishakh to name a few.

Adding more on the glorious part of BangoSangho, Dr. Sengupta cherishes the moments of close bonding between members, periodical sports events like football matches, card playing competitions followed by a brief cultural programme.

Treading down memory lane, he recollects an interesting week end rendezvous which used to take place at the "Drive In", where there existed a car park capacity of 600 cars; now that’s news to us! Specially when we compare the jostling experience of car park everywhere now a days.

Reminiscing the golden olden days, he says, the city was much safer and expatriates were among the most respectable ones in the society. Well all was not hunky dory about former BangoSangho. They had their own share of sorrows. Due the financial recession (in the early 80’s), the number of Bengali families reduced to 12-13.

But the shrinking number of families could not take the zest out of the remaining members, and Durga Puja continued with the same spirit.
So here we go!!