By Wanjiku Mbugua

The Confucius Classroom at USIU-Africa began their official duty with a meeting on Monday, January 30, 2023. The aim of the Confucius Classroom is to promote Chinese language and culture, support local Chinese teaching internationally and facilitate cultural exchanges.

The board is engaged to realize the mandate of the Confucius Classroom as captured in the signed MoU between Confucius Classroom and Confucius Institute at Kenyatta University. One of its main objectives includes ‘enhancing understanding and friendship between the people’s Republic of China’. The board is committed to see the Confucius Classroom at USIU-Africa grow to greater heights.

Confucius Institutes are named after the Chinese philosopher Confucius (551*479 BC). They are public educational and cultural promotion programs, funded and arranged currently by the Chinese International Education Foundation, a government-organized non-governmental organization (GONGO) under the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China. The Confucius Institute program was formerly under Hanban, an organization affiliated with the Chinese government.