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University welcomes new students into campus community

(Above from L to R): Final year students Patrick Mashinga and Ruramayi Makaya with 30-year-old Konte N’ouemou of Benin, a new graduate student in the Faculty of Health Sciences.

Africa University welcomed a new group of students into the campus community in a formal Matriculation Ceremony on September 8. About 420 young people have registered and are attending lectures and the total enrolment stands at just under 1300 students. For the first time in its history,

the University has enrolled students from Benin and Mali in West Africa, and from South Africa.

Celeste Sauls in multicoloured blouse) is one of five new students from South Africa who have enrolled at AU.

Thirty-year-old Konte N’ouemou, a young man from Benin, is pursuing a master’s degree in public health at Africa University. He can barely contain his excitement about the diversity of the student population and its
potential for promoting greater integration and unity among Africans.“I appreciate being at Africa University,” said Konte. “It is a great opportunity to change Africa as a whole;
Africans meeting in one place is really great…there is no better way to achieve

Ashleigh Kutukwa,(above) an MBA student, takes advantage of wireless Internet access to enjoy the outdoors while surfing the web. The University is on the cusp of an e-learning explosion as lecturers use the new facilites for more independent and interactive learning.

this common understanding than to begin with young people.” The United Methodist Church’s South Africa Provisional Conference is also beginning to take advantage of training opportunities at Africa University. Celeste Sauls
is one of five new South African students at the University.
She’s is pursuing a first degree in accounting. Three others are studying theology and one is training as a teacher. All five have received scholarship grants from Africa University and they are tremendously grateful and hopeful.

“I want to work very hard and contribute to the empowerment of women in my country, and I have to work particularly hard in order to keep my grades in good standing and keep my scholarship,” said Sauls. As they go about their lectures and extra-curricula activities on campus, the new students are singling out the University’s teaching and academic support facilities as two of its strongest assets. They’re particularly impressed with
the Jokomo Yamada Library and the Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) Centre. With the infusion of hundreds of thousands of dollars
to improve the ICT infrastructure and systems over the past year, the University is on the brink of an e-learning explosion. New and continuing students alike are exploiting wireless Internet capacity to access information and increasingly
lecturers are making teaching and learning more independent
and interactive.