Dr Shaban Mayanja: “The destiny is splendid for German studies in East Africa”
One of a things Dr Mayanja many appreciates about a University of Nairobi is a fact that it is so good equipped: “Kenya has clever and functioning infrastructure. We have roughly all we need, and this creates a work most easier.” Almost all students have online opening to educational materials and have a event to use laptops during lectures and seminars. In Mayanja’s experience, however, university staff and students have really tiny hit with a internal population. “For me, Nairobi is rather like a European city. we live in an unit building on a hinterland together with my mother and son. It’s a good partial of town, and there’s even a tiny swimming pool. While we don’t have most hit with a approach neighbours, we do have utterly a vast network of friends outward a district. In some ways, it reminds me of what life was like in Hannover.”
Fear of belligerent attacks such as a one carried out by a Al-Shabaab belligerent organization during Westgate Shopping Mall in Sep 2013 has noticeably altered campus life. “Security during a university is really high, with bag checks during a categorical opening and during a doors of any harangue hall,” says Mayanja. “It is also critical to be observant when holding trips to a coast. But we have schooled to live with a conditions as it is.”
Many of Dr Mayanja’s students are study German in multiple with Chinese, Korean or International Relations. “Their idea is to urge their chances of being employed by a German organization with general operations.” Further intensity employers embody German companies in Kenya and a catering and tourism industries. Teaching German has also turn a genuine option. Mayanja is gratified that a third vital discussion of a Ostafrikanischer Germanistenverband (East African organisation of German scholars) will be hold in Nairobi in late 2017. Of one thing he is sure: “The destiny is splendid for German studies in East Africa.”
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