{"id":103710,"date":"2025-06-17T14:56:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T14:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/mount-kigali-university-vc-praises-prof-kabajis-appointment"},"modified":"2025-06-17T15:12:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T15:12:50","slug":"mount-kigali-university-vc-praises-prof-kabajis-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/policy\/mount-kigali-university-vc-praises-prof-kabajis-appointment","title":{"rendered":"Mount Kigali University VC Praises Prof Kabaji&#8217;s Appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Mount Kigali University Vice-Chancellor Dr Martin Kimemia has congratulated Prof Egara Kabaji on his appointment as the university\u2019s Chancellor.<\/p>\n<p>Said Dr Kimemia: \u201cI congratulate Prof Kabaji, and welcome him to our esteemed university. We look forward to working closely with him, to take Mount Kigali University to even greater heights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The university\u2019s board announced the appointment during the weekend. This marks a new phase of development for the university that has grown from a cross-border campus of Mount Kenya University into a fully-fledged, autonomous higher education institution.<\/p>\n<p>While making the news public, Mount Kigali University founder and board chairman Prof Simon Gicharu explained why they settled on Prof Kabaji.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHis scholarly work, administrative experience, and dedication to higher education make him highly suited to leading Mount Kigali University through its next phase of development,\u201d said Prof Gicharu.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Kimemia pointed out that the transformation that began when the Government of Rwanda granted Mount Kigali University autonomy in 2023 is in top gear.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Kabaji is an esteemed academic and thought leader currently based at Kenya\u2019s Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Kabaji holds a PhD in Folk Media and Communication from the University of South Africa (Unisa), an MBA in Strategic Management from Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology (Jkuat), a Master of Arts in Literary Studies from Kenyatta University, and a Bachelor of Education in Literature and English from the same university.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has distinguished himself as scholar and literary communicator,\u201d said Dr Kimemia, noting that the don has made notable contributions to literature, cultural studies and academic leadership.<\/p>\n<p>A view of Mount Kigali University campus in Kicukiro, Kigali.<\/p>\n<p>Added Mount Kigali University VC: \u201cProf Kabaji, who assumes his new role on August 1, 2025, comes in when the university is on an infrastructure expansion drive. At the same time, we are ramping up our philanthropic effort as an institution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr Kimemia said he is convinced that, under Prof Kabaji\u2019s stewardship, Mount Kigali University will witness further growth, through the forging of more strategic partnerships.<\/p>\n<p>Mount Kigali University started in 2010 as a campus of MKU offering health science, business and social science courses. The new chancellor comes in when the university is planning to offer doctoral courses, adding to its expanding repertoire of highly marketable programmes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Rwanda<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. Mount Kigali University Vice-Chancellor Dr Martin Kimemia has congratulated Prof Egara Kabaji on his appointment as the university\u2019s Chancellor. Said Dr Kimemia: \u201cI congratulate Prof Kabaji, and welcome him to our esteemed university. We look forward to working closely with him, to take Mount Kigali University to even greater heights.\u201d The university\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":103709,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,14],"tags":[7474,3516,758],"class_list":["post-103710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-mount-kenya-university","tag-mount-kigali-university","tag-rwanda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mount Kigali University VC Praises Prof Kabaji&#039;s Appointment - Rwanda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mount Kigali University Vice-Chancellor Dr Martin Kimemia has congratulated Prof Egara Kabaji on his appointment as the ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/policy\/mount-kigali-university-vc-praises-prof-kabajis-appointment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mount Kigali University VC Praises Prof Kabaji&#039;s Appointment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mount Kigali University Vice-Chancellor Dr Martin Kimemia has congratulated Prof Egara Kabaji on his appointment as the ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/policy\/mount-kigali-university-vc-praises-prof-kabajis-appointment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rwanda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-06-17T14:56:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-06-17T15:12:50+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/sm_1750160551.275761.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"666\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/policy\/mount-kigali-university-vc-praises-prof-kabajis-appointment#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/policy\/mount-kigali-university-vc-praises-prof-kabajis-appointment\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Mount Kigali University VC Praises Prof Kabaji&#8217;s Appointment\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-06-17T14:56:39+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-06-17T15:12:50+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/policy\/mount-kigali-university-vc-praises-prof-kabajis-appointment\"},\"wordCount\":402,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/policy\/mount-kigali-university-vc-praises-prof-kabajis-appointment#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2025\/06\/sm_1750160551.275761.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Mount Kenya University\",\"Mount Kigali University\",\"Rwanda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/policy\/mount-kigali-university-vc-praises-prof-kabajis-appointment#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/policy\/mount-kigali-university-vc-praises-prof-kabajis-appointment\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/policy\/mount-kigali-university-vc-praises-prof-kabajis-appointment\",\"name\":\"Mount Kigali University VC Praises Prof Kabaji's Appointment - 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