Penda Mbow

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.

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

• Women in Senegal
• Gender Studies

Bibliography

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

External links

• Template:En icon [1] "Evolving role for Senegalese women in religion", by Penda Mbow, 2009.
• Template:Fr icon Biographie et bibliographie sur le site de l'UCAD
• Template:Fr icon « Penda Mbow – Professeur d’Histoire à l’UCAD: Au commencement, une pénurie d’eau... » (interview)
• Template:Fr icon [2] Official Website of Mouvement Citoyen