Confucius Institute, University of Nairobi

Confucius Institute is an education organization with a mission of helping the people in the world to learn Chinese language and the culture of China.

Confucius Institute at University of Nairobi was launched, as the first Confucius Institute in Africa, on Monday, the 19th December, 2005. His Excellency, the president of People’s Republic of China, Mr. Hu Jintao, met the students and teachers on his visit to Kenya in 2006.

The Confucius Institute at University of Nairobi has been voted top 20 Confucius Institutes with the excellent reward five times in succession from 2007 to the end of 2011.