The African Renaissance is the concept that the African people shall overcome the current challenges confronting the continent and achieve cultural,scientific,and economic renewal. This concept was first articulated by Cheikh Anta Diop in a series of essays between 1946 and 1960,later collected in a book titled Towards the African Renaissance. Diop's ideas were further popularized by former President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki during his tenure as Deputy President,where the African Renaissance continues to play a key role in the post-apartheid intellectual agenda.
Mariama Bâ was a Senegalese author and feminist,whose two French-language novels were both translated into more than a dozen languages. Born in Dakar,she was raised a Muslim.
French Sudan was established in the late nineteenth century and occupied roughly the same territory as modern Mali.
The Noma Award for Publishing in Africa,which ran from 1980 to 2009,was an annual $10,000 prize for outstanding African writers and scholars who published in Africa. Within four years of its establishment,the prize "had become the major book award in Africa". It was one of the series of Noma Prizes.
Professor Chacha Nyaigotti-Chacha is a Kenyan playwright and consummate educationalist. He has served as an executive secretary of the Inter-University Council for East Africa (2000–2010),and was the first CEO of the Kenyan Higher Education Loans Board (1995–2000). He is currently serving as the Chairman of the Kenyan Commission for University Education (CUE).
Charles Chukwuma Soludo is a Nigerian politician,banker,and economics professor who has served as governor of Anambra State since March 2022. He is a former governor and chairman of the board of directors of the Central Bank of Nigeria. He was appointed as the bank's governor on 29 May 2004.
Chantal Biya is the first lady of Cameroon.
Dr. Oyeleye Oyediran is a noted Nigerian political scientist. A former Fulbright scholar,and a native of Ogbomosho in Oyo State,he has edited books like,Nigerian Government and Politics Under Military Rule,1966-1979 and Survey of Nigerian Affairs,1973-1977 and 1978-1979. He has remained a faculty at the Center for International Studies,at the East Carolina University,and Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace,(1999–2000).
There is a significant community of Lebanese people in Senegal. Lebanese migration to Senegal began in the late 19th century,largely motivated by economic prospects in trade and commerce. While retaining cultural ties to Lebanon and largely practicing endogamy,they've assimilated into Senegalese society,predominantly engaged in commerce. Official statistics on the Lebanese population in Senegal are absent,with estimates ranging from 15,000 to 30,000 as of 2006.
Mahmood Mamdani,FBA is an Indian-born Ugandan academic,author,and political commentator. He currently serves as the Chancellor of Kampala International University,Uganda. He was the director of the Makerere Institute of Social Research (MISR) from 2010 until February 2022,the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at the School of International and Public Affairs,Columbia University and the Professor of Anthropology,Political Science and African Studies at Columbia University.
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 UniversitéCheikh Anta Diop in Dakar and president of Mouvement citoyen.
Lamane or laman (Serer:Laamaan or Lamaan,mean "master of the land" in Serer. The name was also sometimes the title of chiefs or kings of the Serer people of the Senegambia region which includes modern day Senegal and the Gambia. This title was also used by some kings of the Wolof kingdoms. The title is sometimes used interchangeably with the old title Maad. After the Guelowars' migration to the Sine and the foundation of the Kingdom of Sine,"lamane" denotes a provincial chief answerable to the King of Sine and Saloum.
Joof or Diouf is a surname that is typically Serer. This surname is also spelt Juuf or Juf.
The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Dakar,Senegal.
Ousmane Oumar Kane is a Senegalese Muslim scholar of Islamic studies. He holds the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Chair on Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society at the Harvard Divinity School and the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization at Harvard University since July 2012.
Nikolai Viktorovich Nasonov was a Russian and Soviet zoologist. In 1879 he graduated from the Imperial Moscow University and became an assistant at its Zoological Museum. After defending his PhD in 1887 he lectured at his alma mater,and later worked in Trieste,Marseille and Warsaw. In 1890 he defended a habilitation on the evolution of ants. In December 1897 he was elected as a corresponding and in March 1906 as a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In addition to his studies in zoology Nasonov also dealt with the race problem based on Marxism and published articles in Revolutsionnyi vostok,a monthly journal published by the Communist University of the Toilers of the East. His articles criticized the approach of Endre Sík towards race.
Malawi (MAW) has competed in the African Games since the second Games in 1973. Athletes from Malawi have won a total of five medals in three Games,first winning in 1987. While competing,two athletes have also broken the national record in 800 metres,firstly in the men's event in 1987 and then in the women's in 2003.
Aminata Diaw Cissé was a Senegalese lecturer and political philosopher who taught at the Cheikh Anta Diop University (UCAD). Influenced by Jean-Jacques Rousseau and her academia background,she wrote about citizenship,civil society,democracy,development,ethnicity,gender,globalisation,human rights,identity,nationality and the state in an African and Senegalese context by using a political insight. Diaw worked for the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA),Bellagio Study and Conference Center of the Rockfeller Foundation,National UNESCO Sub-Commission on Social Sciences and Humanities,West African Research Association,the National UNESCO Sub-Commission on Social Sciences and Humanities and the Philosophical and Epistemological Research Center of the Doctoral School Studies.
Revolutsionnyi vostok was a monthly theoretical journal which was published by the Communist University of the Toilers of the East (KUTV) between 1927 and 1938 in Moscow. It was one of the major Orientalist publications in the Soviet Union.
Prof. Joseph Gahama is a Burundian historian specialized in African history.
