THE EAST AFRICAN DEBATE
CHAMPIONSHIP - MU BRINGS HOME MEDAL
By Borish Nkoo of Rwanda as well as Rwandan Catholic University.
M Kenya had one team from the Catholic University
Speaker in the East African Debate Championship In the first six rounds which began on 28 th August,
beating forty participants from various universities 2017, the Team from Mzumbe University won first
in East African countries. place in all debating rounds with total of 800 points
s. Dorice John Mgeta an LLB 1 student
at the Mzumbe University, Mbeya
Campus College, has won the Best
Ms. Dorice John Mgeta won the medal with speaker’s
points 442, the prize were awarded by the Chancellor
of the University of Rwanda, Prof. Philip Cotton who
was the Guest of Honour at the ceremony on the 1 st
of September, 2017.
The East African Debate Championship was
organized by Aspire Rwanda in collaboration with
the University of Rwanda. The competition was held
from 26 th August to 2 nd September 2017.
There were forty participants from various
universities in East Africa and teams of two were
formed to imitate the British debating system that
while from Tanzania, only Ms. Dorice John Mgeta
from Mzumbe University participated.
and speaker’s point 152. On 29 th August, there were
two rounds in which Mzumbe University took the
first place in round one and the third place in round
two. The braking teams into the quarter finals,
Mzumbe University became in the third place.
In the semi-finals, the team’s positions were
not revealed due to reasons known only to the
adjudicators and therefore, Mzumbe did not make
up to the finals.
Kyambogo University emerged the winner of the
East African Debate Championship while Mzumbe
University had won the Best Speaker for the debate.
was adopted. Countries that participated in the
competition were Tanzania, Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda
and Burundi. The Panel of the adjudicators came
from Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda and Nigeria.
In the competition, Uganda had ten teams from the
University of Makerere, Kyambogo University and
the International University of East Africa (Kampala).
Burundi had one team from the National University
and Rwanda had seven teams from the University
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