University of Nairobi

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The University of Nairobi (also known as UON ) is the largest university in Kenya. Founded in 1956, the college was in 1963 incorporated into the University of East Africa, became independent after its dissolution in 1970. In the year 2002 22.000 students were enrolled.

History

The founding of the University dates back to 1956, when the first high school graduates were admitted to the Royal Technical College to study. On June 25, 1961, the Royal Technical College was transformed into a university with the name Royal College Nairobi, then the second university founded in East Africa. At that time there was a close relationship with the University of London, for example, awarded the English university, the academic title. On May 20, 1964, the Royal College Nairobi was incorporated into the transnational East African University of East Africa as University College Nairobi. The close academic links with the University London was canceled. After the dissolution of the University of East Africa in 1970, the university received its present name University of Nairobi and was the first national university in Kenya.

Faculties

  • Faculty of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences ( Upper Kabete Campus )
  • Faculty of Architecture and Engineering (Main Campus )
  • Faculty of Biology and Physics ( Chiromo - campus)
  • Faculty of Education ( Kikuyu Campus )
  • Faculty of Medicine ( Kenyatta National Hospital )
  • Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (Main Campus )

Personalities

  • Wangari Maathai ( Vetärinärin, politician )
  • Henry Odera Oruka (philosopher )
  • Walter Plata ( Graphic Designer) participated as a development worker from 1969 on the establishment of the first school of design in a black African university and managed it from 1973 to 1975.

Graduates

  • Iman Abdulmajid, model
  • Joyce Aluoch, Judge at the International Criminal Court
  • Mariatou Jallow, politician and former Minister of Health and Social Services in the Gambia
  • Musikari Kombo, entrepreneurs and politicians
  • Newton Kulundu, politicians
  • Willy Mutunga, Chief Justice of Kenya and President of the Supreme Court of Kenya
  • Njoki Ndung'u, politician and judge at the Supreme Court of Kenya
  • Florence Wambugu, Pflanzenpathologin and virologist
  • Moses Wetangula, Kenya's foreign minister
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