Nairobi, May 2 -- Prof Mwenda Ntarangwi is the new vice chancellor of the United States International University-Africa (USIU-A).

He will be the first Kenyan to head the institution.

The university announced on Thursday to fill the position following the unexpected resignation of Prof Margee Ensign in August last year due to medical reasons.

Prof Ntarangwi will assume office on July 1, 2024, to lead one of Kenya's largest private universities.

Dr Lola Odubekun has been serving as interim VC since September as the recruitment of a substantive VC went on. The university leadership has changed hands a number of times in the recent past.

Prof Ensign had taken over from its long-serving VC Prof Freida Brown who came out of retirement in A...