Pap Ndiaye, new director general of the National Museum of the History of Immigration
Franco-Senegalese historian Pap Ndiaye, here in 2012, has been appointed the new director of the National Museum of the History of Immigration in Paris.
AFP - MEHDI FEDOUACH
Text by: Carmen Lunsmann
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It is a specialist in the social history of the United States and of minorities who will head the National Museum of the History of Immigration in Paris.
The Franco-Senegalese Pap Ndiaye, brother of the Prix Goncourt Marie Ndiaye, has been appointed as general manager of the Palais de la Porte Dorée which houses this museum.
Pap Ndiaye will take office in March.
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A committed intellectual, Pap Ndiaye has devoted his research to the fight against racial discrimination and for greater equality of opportunity.
It was during his studies in the United States that this normalien, who has been studying history, discovered the “
black world
”.
He is the author of a publication on
Obama in Black America
and collaborated, in France, with the Musée d'Orsay to provide his expertise to the exhibition
The Black Model
.
This week, he just added another stone to his cause by delivering a report on diversity to the Paris Opera.
At 55, the historian is preparing to take charge of the National Museum of the History of Immigration in the Palais de la Porte Dorée in Paris.
"
It is a place both of knowledge and of serene reflection on questions which, in the hot news, are often considered in a polemical way and a little quickly
", he affirmed on France Inter.
Pap Ndiaye wishes to make it a place of debate in connection with universities and develop international exchanges with other institutions in the world, in order to change views and mentalities in France and elsewhere.
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