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Swahili:Chuo Kikuu cha Afrika Mashariki | |
| Active | 29 June 1963–1970 |
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| Special relation | University of London |
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TheUniversity of East Africa was established on 29 June 1963[1] and servedKenya,Tanzania, andUganda in the easternAfrican Great Lakes region.[2][3] The university was originally instituted as an independent external college of theUniversity of London. Theseunversities inEast Africa by then gained their right to stand as independent bodies as follows, and their popularly known name emerged:
After funding ofMakerereUniversity 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 ofKenya,Uganda andTanganyika(known asTanzania after union withZanzibar). These policies was to culminate the establishment of the regionalUniversity ofEast Africa (UEA) in June 1963 with university colleges in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania.[7]
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