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University of East Africa

Independent external college

Summary

Independent external college

Field	Value
name	University of East Africa
native_name
established	29 June 1963
closed	1970
free_label	Special relation
free	University of London

| vice-president = The University of East Africa was established on 29 June 1963 and served Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda in the eastern African Great Lakes region. The university was originally instituted as an independent external college of the University of London. These unversities in East Africa by then gained their right to stand as independent bodies as follows, and their popularly known name emerged:

Kenya: University of Nairobi
Uganda: Makerere University which gained its autonomy of being an independent university offering both undergraduate and postgraduates on 1 July 1970
Tanzania: University of Dar es Salaam. By 1963, it became an independent university after being instituted as the University of London on 25 October 1961 and many faculties started to emerged in the following years of existence.

History

After funding of Makerere University college's commencement era of territorial university among the three countries of East Africa, for the next 2 decades, East Africa's university drew a joint affair policy among the authorities of Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika(known as Tanzania after union with Zanzibar). These policies was to culminate the establishment of the regional University of East Africa (UEA) in June 1963 with university colleges in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.

References

"Universities: East Africa", ''A Historical Companion To Postcolonial Thought In English'' (Columbia University Press, 2005) Prem Poddar and David Johnson, eds., p. 489.
"CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EAST AFRICA". Makerere University.
BHEKITHEMBA RICHARD MNGOMEZULU. (2012). "Politics and Higher Education in East Africa (From the 1920s to 1970)". AFRICAN SUN MeDIA.
"UON Profile". University of Nairobi.
University, Makerere. "History {{!}} Makerere University".
"History {{!}} University of Dar es Salaam".
Kithinji, Michael Mwenda. (2012). "An imperial enterprise: The making and breaking of the University of East Africa, 1949-1969". Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines.

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