Eden University, formerly known as Eden Institute, is a private institution of higher education located in

Lusaka Lusaka (; ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Zambia. It is one of the fastest-developing cities in southern Africa. Lusaka is in the southern part of the central plateau at an elevation of about . , the city's population was ab ...

Zambia. It is affiliated with the

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and has made notable humanitarian contributions to the less privileged in Zambia. Established in 2010 as a teachers' training institute, Eden University has, over the years, evolved into a large university that boasts of being the first Zambian institution to offer a bachelor's degree in Fire Engineering. In 2018, the university organized an event that was supposed to feature P. L. O. Lumumba and talk about Chinese influence on Africa, but due to the controversial nature of the topic, the PF government, which was widely seen as pro-

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, denied him entry into the country. However, in 2021 when the UPND government took over after defeating the PF regime in elections that same year, PLO Lumumba was allowed into the countryVIDEO: Professor P.L.O Lumumba arrives in the country , The Zambian Observer https://zambianobserver.com/video-professor-p-l-o-lumumba-arrives-in-the-country and the event was finally held on 26 September 2021.

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