President Samia Suluhu Hassan receives honorary doctorate from India's Jawaharlal Nehru University
What you need to know:
- This is the second honorary doctorate she has received, after being awarded one by the University of Dar es Salaam last year.
Dar es Salaam. President Samia Suluhu Hassan has received her first foreign honorary doctorate from the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in India.
This is the second honorary doctorate she has received, after being awarded one by the University of Dar es Salaam last year.
In her acceptance speech, President Hassan expressed her appreciation for the award and pledged to strengthen the strategic partnership between Tanzania and India.
She also highlighted the contributions and accomplishments that led to this prestigious recognition, which is also a symbol of the strong ties between the two countries.
President Hassan reflected on her life as a girl child from a predominantly African and Muslim community in Zanzibar, where she was born and raised.
She spoke of her parents, a housewife mother and a teacher father, who had little chance and no hope of seeing their daughter become the President of Tanzania, especially given that she studied higher education while working.
JNU's Vice Chancellor, Prof Santishree Dhulipudi Pandit, noted that Tanzania's founding father, Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, also received an honorary doctorate from the university in 1995.
She added that JNU is among India's top universities and one of the topmost in international rankings, having also produced two Nobel Prize winners.
