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State-funded university in Brazzaville, the Republic of Congo
Marien Ngouabi University
Université Marien Ngouabi (French)
TypeState-funded university
Established4 December 1971
PresidentGontron Ondzotto
DeanBlaise Irene Atipo-Ibara (Faculté des Sciences de la Santé)
Students20,000 (2012)
LocationBrazzaville, Republic of the Congo
CampusUrban
NicknameUMNG
WebsiteUniversity website

Marien Ngouabi University (French: Université Marien Ngouabi, UMNG) is the only state-funded university in the Republic of the Congo. It is located in the nation's capital Brazzaville.

History

The University of Brazzaville was founded on 4 December 1971 amidst desires to assert the country's sovereignty. Following the assassination of President Marien Ngouabi on 18 March 1977, the university was renamed in his honor on 28 July 1977. The University of Brazzaville was a continuation of the Foundation for Higher Education in Central Africa (1961), which in turn developed out of the Center for Higher Education in Brazzaville (1959). It has a number of separate campuses, each with individual libraries (ten different ones in 1993), in Brazzaville and the rest of the country. The largest and most important library is what is called the Central Library, the Library of the School of Humanities and of the Advanced Institute of Economic, Juridical, Administrative, and Management Sciences (1993 nomenclature); this library originates in the library of French Equatorial Africa's government and the Alliance Française.

Initially, the university had four institutions and 3,000 students; by 2012 it had grown to 11 institutions and some 20,000 students.

Institutions

As of 2012:

Alumni

References

  1. INHEA | Congo (Brazzaville) Higher Education Profile Archived 2008-02-11 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Republic of Congo: Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper. International Monetary Fund. 2012. p. 129. ISBN 9781475548433.
  3. "L’université Marien-Ngouabi de Brazzaville célèbre ses trente ans d’existence" Archived 2012-02-26 at the Wayback Machine, Les Dépêches de Brazzaville, 8 December 2001 (in French).
  4. Wedgeworth, Robert, ed. (1993). World Encyclopedia of Library and Information Services. American Library Association. p. 222. ISBN 9780838906095.

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