Meet First Black Graduate Nankai University Law School, China

Melvin Biyele Standing Backing The Prestigious Nankai University

In the past, students from Africa didn't like to go to China to further their education for two important reasons language barrier and the believe that their educational standards was low.

In recent years things have changed, students from Africa are now realising that China provide one of the best education programme in the world coupled with the fact that the country is now highly advanced in technology.

On this page is one of the few African students that is studying in China, he also happened to be the very first black person to graduate from Nankai University Law School, China.

Melvin James Biyele is the very first black man to graduate from Chinese Nankai University Law School. He is a Cameroonian and a polyglot - he is able to speak five different languages.

Before traveling to China to pursue his master degree programmes in law at the
University he was a degree holder in legal and political science from the Catholic University of Central Africa.

On getting to China he did a  Chinese language proficiency course for one year (2016-2017), forming a fundamental of his educational career in the country.

He quilified for a Master degree programmes in Environmental and Resources Law at the university back in 2017 and he graduated from the school  this year 2019 making him the first black person to graduate from the prestigious Nankai University Law School.

Melvin James Biyele is currently doing his PhD programme in Environmental Law and Natural Resources at Tsinghua University also in China. Who knows whether he would also be the first black person to graduate from the University Law School?

Biyele is a man of many parts. While he is pursuing his doctoral degree in law, he teaches French at his Alma Mater. He is also a translator of the school official documents.