University of East Africa

For the university in the Horn of Africa, see East Africa University.

Establishment.

University of East Africa

Swahili: Chuo Kikuu cha Afrika Mashariki
Active	29 June 1963–1970
Special relation	University of London

The University of East Africa was established on 29 June 1963 ^[1] and served Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda in the eastern African Great Lakes region. ^{[2] [3]} 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:

1. Kenya :University of Nairobi ^[4]
2. Uganda : Makerere University ^[5] which gained its autonomy of being an independent unversity offering both undergarduate and postgraduates on the 1^st July 1970
3. Tanzania: University of Dar es Salaam ^[6] . By 1963, it became an independent university after being instituted as the University of London on the 25^th 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 authories of Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika(known as Tanzania after union with Zanziba r).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 ^[7] .

See also

1. Makerere University
2. University of Nairobi
3. University of Dar es Salaam

References

1. "Universities: East Africa", A Historical Companion To Postcolonial Thought In English (Columbia University Press, 2005) Prem Poddar and David Johnson, eds., p. 489.
2. "CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EAST AFRICA". Makerere University. Archived from the original on 2013-09-26. Retrieved 2014-03-12.
3. BHEKITHEMBA RICHARD MNGOMEZULU (2012). "Politics and Higher Education in East Africa (From the 1920s to 1970)". AFRICAN SUN MeDIA. Archived from the original on 2014-02-28. Retrieved 2014-03-12.
4. "UON Profile". University of Nairobi. Archived from the original on 2014-03-12. Retrieved 2014-03-12.
5. University, Makerere. "History | Makerere University". mak.ac.ug. Retrieved 2025-12-14.
6. "History | University of Dar es Salaam". www.udsm.ac.tz. Retrieved 2025-12-14.
7. 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. 46 (2): 195–214. ISSN   0008-3968.

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