Amadou Mahtar Mbow, first African director of Unesco (Episode 2: The Mbow legend)

Audio 48:30

Amadou Mahtar Mbow, Director of UNESCO, from 1974 to 1987 © SEYLLOU / AFP PHOTO

By: Valérie Nivelon

1 min

To the sound of RFI's archives, we recount the century of Amadou Mahtar Mbow, born in 1921 in Dakar.

After discussing his colonial childhood, his training at the Koranic and French School, his family passion for the history of Africa and its great resistance fighters, his vocation for education and his philosophical vision of the liberation of Africans.

We retrace the commitment of Amadou Mahtar Mbow for decolonization, for basic education, for Unesco and his avant-garde vision of the restitution of cultural property and works of art.

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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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