Go-ahead for East Africa’s second Islamic university

By Maina Waruru. East Africa has a second Islamic university, after Kenya’s Commission for University Education, or CUE, granted a letter of interim authority to Umma University to offer various degree and diploma courses. On 23 July the university transformed from being Thika College for Sharia and Islamic Studies to a full university owned and managed by Islamic institutions in Kenya led by the Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims. Umma University, which says its vision is to be a “centre of excellence and a seat of knowledge” in East Africa, is busy setting up a new main campus in Kajiado county, some 70 kilometres south of Nairobi. More...