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University of Kinshasa

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University of Kinshasa

The University of Kinshasa (French: Université de Kinshasa), colloquially known by its acronym UNIKIN, is a public university located in Kinshasa's Lemba commune within the western region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is the country's premier university. The university was founded in 1

954 as Lovanium University during Belgian colonial rule, making it the oldest university in the country and one of its principal institutions of higher education. The university traces its origins to educational and medical initiatives launched by the Catholic University of Louvain in the Belgian Congo in the 1920s. These developed into the Congolese University Center of Lovanium in 1947 and subsequently Lovanium University, which began operating at its Mount Amba campus in 1954. Lovanium became an important center of higher education and research in Central Africa. On 20 July 1971, it was renamed the University of Kinshasa (UNIKIN) and was incorporated into the National University of Zaire (UNAZA) on 6 August. In 1981, UNAZA was decentralized, and its Kinshasa campus was re-established as the University of Kinshasa. The university had an enrollment of 29,554 and a faculty and research staff...

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