Amadou Mahtar Mbow, first African director of Unesco (Episode 1: The Mbow method)
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Amadou Mahtar Mbow, Director of UNESCO, from 1974 to 1987 © SEYLLOU / AFP PHOTO
By: Valérie Nivelon
To the sound of RFI's archives, we recount the century of Amadou Mahtar Mbow, born in 1921 in Dakar.
His colonial childhood, his training at the Koranic School and at the French school, his family passion for the history of Africa and its great resistance to the French Occupation, his vocation for teaching, and his philosophical vision. and policy of the liberation of Africans.
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With
Lamine Sagna
, sociologist and author of the book “
Amadou Mahtar Mbow, a legend to be told
”, published by Karan and the participation of researchers from Columbia University;
Souleymane Bachir Diagne
, philosopher and
Mamadou Diouf
, historian of ideas.
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