Home›Higher Education Institutions›Universities in Sub-Saharan Africa›All Universities in Sub-Saharan AfricaBrowse ByAll Universities in Sub-Saharan AfricaA higher education institution located in Africa south of the Sahara, gathered under the UN geoscheme's Sub-Saharan Africa region and spanning East, West, Central and Southern Africa. This group includes several countries' oldest and largest national universities, among them institutions founded in the colonial period that became a newly independent nation's flagship university. It is kept distinct from North Africa and the Middle East, the geoscheme's neighboring region across the Sahara and into Western Asia.FactsAll Universities in Sub-Saharan AfricaSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsComparisonEra of EmergenceWell-attested1948 1All Universities in Sub-Saharan AfricaFilter Results18 entriesCountryAllCameroon (1)Equatorial Guinea (1)Ethiopia (1)Ivory Coast (1)Nigeria (1)Senegal (1)South Africa (1)Tanzania (1)Zambia (1)Zimbabwe (1)CityAllAbidjan (1)Addis Ababa (1)Dakar (1)Dar es Salaam (1)Harare (1)Ibadan (1)Johannesburg (1)Lusaka (1)Malabo (1)Yaounde (1)FoundedAll1829 (1)1918 (1)1922 (2)1948 (2)1950 (1)1952 (2)1956 (1)1957 (1)1962 (1)1963 (1)1964 (1)1965 (1)1970 (1)1982 (1)1995 (1)Institution TypeAllUniversity (18)Ownership TypeAllPublic (17)World RegionAllUniversities in Sub-Saharan Africa (18)Enrollment SizeAll15125 (1)17718 (1)18176 (1)20000 (1)23500 (1)30000 (1)35897 (1)40000 (1)40259 (1)48673 (1)50000 (1)60875 (1)85000 (1)86188 (1)BrowseCompareSelect all 18Addis Ababa UniversityHigher Education InstitutionsKwame Nkrumah University of Science and TechnologyHigher Education InstitutionsMakerere UniversityHigher Education InstitutionsNational University of Equatorial GuineaHigher Education InstitutionsNational University of RwandaHigher Education InstitutionsStellenbosch UniversityHigher Education InstitutionsUniversite Cheikh Anta DiopHigher Education InstitutionsUniversite Felix Houphouet-BoignyHigher Education InstitutionsUniversity of BotswanaHigher Education InstitutionsUniversity of Cape TownHigher Education InstitutionsUniversity of Dar es SalaamHigher Education InstitutionsUniversity of GhanaHigher Education InstitutionsUniversity of IbadanHigher Education InstitutionsUniversity of NairobiHigher Education InstitutionsUniversity of the WitwatersrandHigher Education InstitutionsUniversity of Yaounde IHigher Education InstitutionsUniversity of ZambiaHigher Education InstitutionsUniversity of ZimbabweHigher Education InstitutionsSources1. Wikipedia: University of Ghanatier 2Wikimedia FoundationUniversity of Ghana, founding sectionQuote, University of Ghana, founding sectionThe university was founded in 1948 as the University College of the Gold CoastView the SourceComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.