University of Buea budgets 30 million for upcoming 30th anniversary celebration

Cameroon’s first Anglo-Saxon university, the University of Buea, will be celebrating its 30th anniversary in a month’s time, with 30 million francs budgeted for the grand event.

Scheduled for May 25-27, the event holds under the theme, “University of Buea: Impacting the Future Through Innovative Solutions.”

The University administration says over 30,000 participants will be expected at the event, including former and current students, professors and other academics, business persons, among other guests.

The anniversary celebration will be characterised by human investment activities, alumni conference, sporting activities, exhibition, outreach activities and projects UB has earmarked for the future.

Also, the institution will use the event to award some distinguished personalities who have impacted the UB community during its 30 years of existence.

Before becoming a full University in 1992, the University of Buea had been a university centre since 1985. Then, it hosted only the Advanced School of Translators and Interpreters, ASTI.

In 1992, President Paul Biya decreed the it as a full Anglo-Saxon university, with Emeritus Prof Dorothy Njeuma as its first Vice Chancellor.

Its current Vice Chancellor, Prof Horace Ngomo Manga, is the fifth since the University was created.

With its motto “Knowledge and Wisdom,” UB has trained thousands of intellectuals and professionals including business persons, politicians, lawyers, journalists, among others.

The institution has over 50 departments, spread across eight Faculties and two schools and colleges.