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Addis Ababa University , the oldest institution of higher education in Ethiopia , is now engaged in a mission to enlarge the nation's capacity in higher education. Our hopes for democratic advance and material betterment cannot be realized in the absence of an educated citizenry engaged to address urgent social problems in ways that promote the public good. >>>

Our mission is to provide higher education of high quality, to nurture students in Christian values and to help the nations of Africa achieve their educational and professional goals. Africa University will play a critical role in educating the new leadership of African nations. >>>

Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane (AUI) is an institution of higher education and scientific and technical research. It contributes to the historical and cultural vocation of the Kingdom of Morocco, an Arab-African nation occupying a privileged geostrategic position, belonging to Islamic civilization, and open to Europe, America and Asia. >>>

The mission of the American University in Cairo (AUC) is to provide high quality educational opportunities to students from all segments of Egyptian society as well as from other countries, and to contribute to Egypt's cultural and intellectual life. The university offers programs at the undergraduate, graduate and professional levels as well as an extensive continuing education program. The language of instruction is English. >>>

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The mission of KNUST is to provide an environment for teaching, research and entrepreneurship training in Science and Technology for development of Ghana and Africa. KNUST will also provide service to the community, be open to all the people of Ghana and positioned to attract scholars, industrialists and entrepreneurs from Africa and other international communities. New Site under construction (January 2005). >>>

Makerere University is Uganda's premier institution of higher learning. With a student population of over 20,000, it ranks as one of the largest in East and Central Africa. >>>

Rhodes University’s vision is to be an outstanding internationally-respected academic institution which proudly affirms its African identity and which is committed to democratic ideals, academic freedom, rigorous scholarship, sound moral values and social responsibility. >>>

Enabling our clients and customers to make meaningful contributions to sustainable development in Zimbabwe. To this end we provide high quality education, training and advisory services on a needs oriented basis. We guarantee the above by maintaining excellence in Teaching, Learning, Research and Service to the Community. >>>

Over the past 20 years Technikon South Africa (SA) has grown into one of the country’s leading distance learning institutions with more than 60 000 students and more than 80 academic programmes. The institution also offers nationally recognised formal degrees, beginning with the B Tech degree and progressing to the level of doctorate. >>>

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L’Université de Dakar a été créée le 14 février 1957. Héritière de l’École africaine de Médecine qui avait été créée en 1915, l’Université de Dakar a connu une longue évolution marquée en 1949 par la création d’un enseignement préparatoire aux études médicales et par l’ouverture au début des années cinquante d’écoles supérieures académiquement rattachés l’Université de Bordeaux, puis érigées en 1957 en Facultés indépendantes pour former l’Université de Dakar. Devenue le 30 mars 1987, Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, l’Université Dakar est la plus ancienne et la plus importante structure d’enseignement supérieur existant à l’heure actuelle au Sénégal. Elle est composée de vingt cinq établissements d’enseignement supérieur de recherche se répartissant comme suit : cinq facultés, dix-neuf instituts d’université, ainsi que l’Ecole Inter-Etats des Sciences et Médecine Vétérinaires qui dépend scientifiquement de l’Université. >>>

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Algier University went through two major stages: first, the period of the French occupation of Algeria, when this Institution bore a colonial stamp, in the service of French interests, a period in which its only beneficiaries were actually the children of settlers; then came the post-independence period, when the University started shouldering a noble mission, the training of the needed cadres required in all the fields by our homeland. >>>

L'Université du Bénin, dès sa création le 14 septembre 1970, s'est assigné comme objectif la formation des cadres suffisemment qualifiés pour entretenir et gérer les structures sociales, économiques et culturelles du pays. Elle se veut par ailleurs une institution de recherche au service du développement du pays. >>>

L'Université du Burundi a pour mission de : Dispenser au niveau le plus élevé les connaissances scientifiques et techniques; Promouvoir la recherche scientifique, littéraire et artistique; Participer activement au développement social, économique et culturel; Contribuer à la formation civique et morale. >>>

Créée en 1981, l'Université de Nouakchott a pour mission de former les cadres supérieurs mauritaniens et contribuer à la recherche. Elle compte environ 10.000 étudiants, encadrés par 254 enseignants, repartis entre 3 facultés: la Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines, la Faculté des Sciences Juridiques et Économiques et la Faculté des Sciences et Techniques. >>>

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The main task of the NUR is to transmit scientific knowledge to its students in a way that new ideas may come out and professional aptitude be acquired. >>>

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The University for Development Studies was established in 1992 as a multi-campus institution to serve the four northern regions of Ghana (Brong-Ahafo, Northern, Upper East and Upper West Regions) in which rural poverty and environmental degradation are generally prevalent. The University is expected to blaze a new trail in higher education by effectively combining academic work with practical hands-on training and experience and work among the communities encompassing its sphere of influence in particular and rural areas in the country, generally. >>>

The University of Benin was founded on 23rd November 1970 by the then Midwestern State Government initially as the Midwest Institute of Technology. The Institute achieved full University status in July 1971 when it was recognized by the National Universities Commission and became the University of Benin. In August 1975, the University was taken over by the the Federal Government. At thirty years in November 2002, the University has solid achievements and expanding national and international reputation built upon a sense of enterprise, resourcefulness, creativity, innovativeness, astute diplomacy, patrotism, excellence and service. >>>

To advance the intellectual and human resource capacity of the nation and the international community. >>>

The University of Cape Coast was established in 1962 originally to train graduate professional teachers for Ghana’s second cycle institutions, Teacher Training Colleges, Technical Institutions as well as the Education Ministry, so as to cope with the manpower requirements of the country’s accelerated education program at that time. Since then, however, the mission of the University has been diversified. Today, in addition to the training of graduate professionals in all disciplines taught at the various levels of pre-university education, the University runs various programs ranging from Primary Education, Agricultural and Basic Sciences, to programs in the Arts and Social Sciences, including Population and Family Life Education as well as Geography and Tourism, to meet the demands of national economy. >>>

Our mission is to be an outstanding teaching and research university, educating for life and addressing the challenges facing our society. >>>

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Our mission is to develop world-class human resources and capabilities to meet national development needs and global challenges through quality teaching, learning, research and knowledge dissemination. >>>

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The University of Namibia was established by an act of Parliament on August 31, 1992 as recommended by a Commission on Higher Education. In accordance with the National Development Plan (NDP1), and indeed its motto: "Education, Service and Development", the University's programmes are designed to meet national human resources requirements through quality teaching, research, consultancy, and community services. >>>

A truly South African university that is academically excellent, innovative in research, critically engaged with society and demographically representative, redressing the disadvantages, inequities and imbalances of the past. >>>

The University of Port Elizabeth is a learning community with a clear focus on development. Our programmes and services are informed by our societal context and reflect our commitment to be a major provider of cutting-edge knowledge and well-equipped leaders. >>>

The mission of the University of Pretoria is to be an internationally recognised South African teaching and research university and a member of the international community of scholarly institutions. >>>

The University of South Africa is a comprehensive, open learning and distance education institution, which, in response to the diverse needs of society. >>>

The University of Swaziland reaffirms its faith in the principles of academic freedom and autonomy and endeavours to provide a congenial learning environment, accessible to the people of Swaziland and beyond. Such an environment shall facilitate excellence in teaching and learning, research, community service, and provide opportunity for consultancy, professional leadership and enterprise development, with a view to nurturing men and women who are well equipped fro service to the changing and dynamic society through the job market and self-employment. >>>

The University of Transkei fights to defend and preserve values of free speech, critical thinking, political tolerance and internationalism. As a respected centre of learning it has delivered substantial numbers of graduates with qualifications and training of relevance to the needs of the region and the country. In 1998 an international office was established in the Guidance and Counselling Unit to promote international linkages and to cater for needs of international students. Education, as a tool for development is UNITRA's most crucial priority. Considerable progress has been made in training students in areas which were not traditionally available to black South Africans, or when apartheid restrictions made it difficult for them to pursue careers. These areas include economic sciences, science and medical and health sciences. The next years will see a lot of activity, Unitra transforming and consolidating herself as an institution of Higher learning with rural research and development as one of, if not her major focus areas. >>>

The University of the Western Cape is a national university, alert to its African and international context as it strives to be a place of quality, a place to grow. It is committed to excellence in teaching, learning and research, to nurturing the cultural diversity of South Africa, and to responding in critical and creative ways to the needs of a society in transition. Drawing on its proud experience in the liberation struggle, the university is aware of a distinctive academic role in helping build an equitable and dynamic society. >>>

The fundamental role of any university is to promote freedom of enquiry and the search for knowledge and truth. Wits has built a reputation for itself in this role, establishing itself at the industrial and commercial heart of South Africa as a centre for education and research of the highest quality. Wits’s mission is to build on this foundation in a way that takes account of its responsibilities within South Africa today; and to maintain and enhance its position as a leading university in South Africa, in Africa, and in the world by sustaining globally competitive standards of excellence in learning, teaching and research. >>>

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Vista University was established in 1982 and is currently the second largest university in the country. It provides innovative, relevant, affordable, values-based education focusing on the communities it serves through its multi-campus structure. It presently has seven contact campuses across South Africa and is a key player in the transformation of South Africa’s higher education sector. Website temporarily unavailable (January 2005). >>>

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Today the National University of Lesotho is a growing institution striving to meet the needs of the nation, through producing competent and skilled graduates who can easily take up the call to assist in the development of Lesotho. >>>

Gordon Memorial College was inaugurated on the 8th of November of the year 1902 by Lord Kitchener, the first Governor General of the Sudan after its re-occupation. As its name implies, it was founded in the memory of General Gordon, the late Governor of the Sudan. Khartoum University College became the University of Khartoum in the year 1956, after the Independence of the Sudan. Hence, the creation of the University by law was as undramatic to those around as the gradual change from adolescence to adulthood. >>>