Addis Ababa University
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The Addis Ababa University (English: Addis Ababa University ) is the public university in Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia. The educational institution was founded in 1950 as the University College of Addis Ababa. In 1962, the facility was renamed Haile Selassie I University, and in 1975 it received its present name.
The University has a total of seven sites, of which six in Addis Ababa and Debre Zeit in a campus, about 45 km from Addis Ababa, are located. In addition, the university has another branch in different cities of the country. The main building has previously served I. Emperor Haile Selassie as a palace. Here is the Institute of Ethiopian Studies and the Ethnological Museum and an excellent exhibition of historical Ethiopian works of art. The remains of Lucy, one of the oldest known Hominini with an age of about three million years ago, is located in the National Museum, which is located in the Ammist Kilo district.
History
The university was founded in 1950 at the request of then- Emperor Haile Selassie to the Canadian Jesuit Dr. Lucien mat. It was intended as a college for two years and accounts already opened a year later. During the first two years of the College, University of London has been connected.
After the seizure of the Derg the establishment from March 4, 1975, temporarily closed and all 50,000 students sent out into all the land to support the new regime there. Ironically, it was later a group of former tigraynische college student who founded the People's Liberation Front of Tigray ( TPLF ) for resistance against the Derg regime and later merged with other groups to the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front.
1979, the University offered its first master's degree programs and it was followed by 1987, the first post-graduate programs.
The German economist Knut Richter taught from 1981 to 1984 at the University of Addis Ababa.
Graduates
- Jimmy Lemi Milla (1948-2011), South Sudanese politician