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Kampala University company history timeline

1922

Makerere University in Kampala, which began as a technical school in 1922, was the first major institution of higher learning in East and Central Africa.

1952

He graduated with an M.A. in history and economics in 1952 and returned to Tanganyika to teach.

1953

Seeking to hasten the process of emancipation, Nyerere joined the Tanganyika African Association, quickly becoming its president in 1953.

1954

In 1954 he converted the organization into the politically oriented Tanganyika African National Union (TANU). Under Nyerere’s leadership the organization espoused peaceful change, social equality, and racial harmony and rejected tribalism and all forms of racial and ethnic discrimination.

1958

In elections held in 1958–59, Nyerere and TANU won a large number of seats on the Legislative Council.

1960

In a subsequent election in August 1960, his organization managed to win 70 of 71 seats in Tanganyika’s new Legislative Assembly.

1980

Nyerere’s intervention helped to unseat Amin and brought about the return to power in Uganda of Milton Obote in 1980.

1985

At the time of his resignation in 1985, Tanzania was still one of the world’s poorest countries, with a per capita income of about United States $250.

1999

Kampala University is a Private Chartered secular Institution of Higher learning that has existed for 18 years since 1999.

KU was founded in 1999.

2008

The Kampala International University in Tanzania (KIUT) was established in Tanzania in 2008 as a Dar es Salaam Constituent College of Kampala International University in Uganda.

2010

The growth in student numbers, in 2010, reflected in the number of applications received for admission, forced the college leadership to search for a new permanent location that would facilitate the offer of university education through both ODL and residential modes of course delivery.

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