Odessa I. I. Mechnikov National University is one of the oldest in Ukraine. It yasungulwa ngo 1865, when by Edict of the Russian Tsar Alexander II the Richelieu Lyceum (Рішелівський ліцей, which had existed in Odessa since 1817) was reorganized into the Imperial Novorossiya (New Russia) University. All academic and scientific life of the university – from the day of its foundation – was directed by the Statute of 1863 that formed the liberal-democratic tradition of the Higher Institution which has been preserved in spite of all the disturbances in the social and political life of the country. From the very first years of its existence, the Imperial Novorossiya University became an important center of science and for training the scientific and educational cadres of the northern Black Sea coastal region. Thina nomqondisi wethu sasiholwa umuntu okwazi ukuthungatha izilwane ovela esizweni samaBaAka, iqembu labantu elibhekwa njengabaThwa ngenxa yokubukeka nokuba bafushane kwabo. Lo muntu ongungoti wothungatha izilwane ukwazi ukuthola isilwane esikwazi ukuzifihla ngokusibona ngisho noma sicashile, ngokuzwa iphunga nemisindo esiyenzayo. Sazungezwa iqulo lezinyosi. Kwakunzima ukuhambisana naye njengoba yena echusha kalula ehlathini eliminyene.