Between April 2nd and 16th 2022, a group of students from the BA program “Geographies of International Development, Focus Africa” travelled to Tanzania for a learning experience. The idea was to break with the traditional model of the field trip that has become a mainstay of geographical education over many decades, and rather put the work of Tanzanian scholars at the center of our learning experiences. How have Tanzanians themselves produced geographical knowledge about their country? What topics matter to them? How can more equal encounters between Northern and Southern scholars be organized? These questions are embedded into a wider pedagogical strategy that encourages students to develop keywords through which we cannot only problematize certain social phenomena but which also serve as compasses for the learning experience on the ground. Several Tanzanian scholars have made key contributions to these keywords, which are presented in the text that follows.