Formerly one of the Agostinho Neto University campuses, it was separated in the process of reforms to Angolan higher education that took place in 2008 and 2009.
The campus housed one of the several Higher Institutes of Education Sciences (ISCED's) of UAN spread across Angola.
The reform proposed the decentralization of the UAN campuses, so that they could form new autonomous university centers.
From this proposal emerged the 11 de Novembro University (UON), implemented by decree-law 7/09, of 12 May 2009, approved by the Council of Ministers.
It became the Zaire Higher School of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities, operating on the M'banza Congo campus.