| Penda Mbow | |
|---|---|
 Penda Mbow at Dakar | |
| Minister of Culture | |
| In office 2001–2001 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 1955 Senegal |
| Occupation | University 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
- 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.
See also
References
- "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
External links
- (in English) "Evolving role for Senegalese women in religion", by Penda Mbow, 2009.
- (in French) Biographie et bibliographie sur le site de l'UCAD
- (in French) « Penda Mbow – Professeur d’Histoire à l’UCAD: Au commencement, une pénurie d’eau... » (interview)
- (in French) Official Website of Mouvement Citoyen
- 1955 births
- Living people
- 21st-century Senegalese politicians
- Senegalese historians
- Senegalese women writers
- Academic staff of Cheikh Anta Diop University
- Women historians
- Culture ministers of Senegal
- 21st-century Senegalese women politicians
- Knights of the Legion of Honour
- Commanders of the Ordre national du Mérite