RECTOR/PRESIDENT OF THE SOMALI NATIONAL UNIVERSITY WANTS TO REPAY COUNTRY FOR HIS EDUCATION BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR
March 1st, 2017
Professor Mohamed Ahmed Jimale, Rector of the Somali National University (SNU), hopes his work will enable poorer Somalis to attain the kind of education that launched him on his career.
Speaking to University World News, Mr Jimale recalled how he graduated from SNU faculty of veterinary in 1983, then becoming a lecturer in the same department, in the years before the 1991 collapse of the Somali government in the midst of civil war. Jimale spent most of the conflict outside the country at Italy’s University of Udine and the University of Alberta, Canada, ...
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