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March 31, 2016Inaugural Social Media Seminar for African Universities held in Accra Ghana
March 31, 2016Below is a list of some of Africa’s oldest Universities. Do you know other equally old African universities? Please respond by posting a comment to this post.
- University of Timbuktu, Mali (982CE)
- University of Al-Karaouine, in Fes, Morocco (859AD)
- Al-Azhar University, Egypt (972AD)
- Fourah Bay College – University of Sierra Leone (1827)
- University of Cape Town (1829)
- University of Liberia (1862)
- Cuttington University (as Cuttington College by Episcopal Church of the United States) 1889
- Stellenbosch University, South Africa (1903)
- Cairo University Egypt (1908)
- University of Algiers, Algeria (1909)
- University of Fort Hare, South Africa (1916)
- American University in Cairo (1919)
- Makerere University in Uganda (1922)
- University of Ghana (1948)
- University of Ibadan, Nigeria (1948)
- University of Zimbabwe (1952)
- Agostinho Neto University Angola (as Estudos Gerais Universitários de Angola) 1962
- Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique (as Estudos Gerais Universitários de Moçambique) 1962
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University of Lagos (UNILAG), Nigeria was established in 1962.
Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Nigeria was also established in 1962
University of Lagos (UNILAG) and Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) all in Nigeria were established in 1962
The Historic College of West Africa, Liberia. It was established in 1839 during the Commonwealth epoch in Liberia. During its formation, it was termed ‘The Liberia Conference Seminary or The Monrovia Seminary with Mr. Jabez A. Burton as its head. It was not until 1898 that it was converted to the College of West Africa known to many as C.W.A. It establishment was the initiative of the United Methodist Church seventeen years after it arrival in the Colony of the African territory of Liberia which remains Africa’s oldest independent state and the World’s second oldest Black independent state next to the 1904 country of Haiti. Today, Rev. PAYE Cooper Mondolo remains its President, Rev. Alex B. Harmon, Vice President, and Emmanuel W. Kofa, Director of Programs and Sponsor of the senior class.
The Historic College of West Africa, Liberia. It was established in 1839 during the Commonwealth epoch in Liberia. During its formation, it was termed ‘The Liberia Conference Seminary or The Monrovia Seminary with Mr. Jabez A. Burton as its head. It was not until 1898 that it was converted to the College of West Africa known to many as C.W.A. It establishment was the initiative of the United Methodist Church seventeen years after it arrival in the Colony of the African territory of Liberia which remains Africa’s oldest independent state, a tangible monument of the most gruesome attrocity ever recorded on planet earth (the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade), and the World’s second oldest Black independent state next to the 1804 country of Haiti. Today, Rev. PAYE Cooper Mondolo remains its President, Rev. Alex B. Harmon, Vice President, and Emmanuel W. Kofa, Director of Programs and Sponsor of the senior class.
Haiti became an independent state in1804 okay. I made a typing error in my previous presentation please.