Penda Mbow

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).

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

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.

Awards and Distinctions
  • Fulbright Scholarship, Michigan State University
  • Rockefeller Foundation award, for research at the Bellagio Center in Italy.
  • Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur Francaise (Knight of the French Legion of Honor) 2003
  • Commandeur de l'Ordre National du Mérite, France, 1999.
  • Honorary doctor at the University of Uppsala in January 2005.[1]

See also

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

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