Penda Mbow
Penda Mbow at Dakar
Minister of Culture
In office
2001–2001
Personal details
BornApril 1955
Senegal
OccupationUniversity professor, activist

Penda Mbow, born in 1955, is a historian, an activist, and a Senegalese politician. Minister of Culture of Senegal for several months in 2001, she is a professor at Université Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar and president of Mouvement citoyen (Citizens' Movement).

Biography

Penda Mbow was born in April 1955.

In 1986 she obtained a doctorate in Medieval History at Université de Provence in France, with a thesis titled L'aristocratie militaire mameluke d'après le cadastre d'Ibn al-Ji'an : éléments de comparaison avec la France (in English: The Mameluke Military Aristocracy after the Public Register of Ibn al-Ji'an: Elements of Comparison with France). Her academic research focuses on African intellectual history and Islamic gender studies. Became a professor in 2010.

Awards and distinctions

See also

References

  1. "Honorary Doctors of the Faculty of Theology - Uppsala University, Sweden". www.uu.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2017-02-17.

Bibliography

  • (in English) Lydia Polgreen, "At Africa's Crumbling Colleges, No Room for Students", The New York Times, 26 mai 2007 (the situation at l'UCAD)
  • (in French) Fabrice Hervieu-Wane, "Penda Mbow. Femme d'utilité publique", dans Dakar l'insoumise, Éditions Autrement, Paris, 2008, p. 94-99
  • (in French) Penda Mbow, editor. "Hommes et femmes entre spheres publique et privee."Codesria, 2005 ISBN 978-2-86978-141-2
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