On June 7, 1963, the University College of Nairobi was officially chartered as Kenya’s first all-African higher education institution, soon becoming the University of Nairobi. This was a key moment in Kenya’s decolonization, just months before independence. For decades, colonial education had excluded Black Kenyans or relegated them to missionary schools. The university became a center for intellectual resistance, producing leaders, scholars, and activists. It symbolized post-colonial self-determination and the right to African-centered knowledge production.
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