Tag: French West Africa Museum
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The Curator Working to Decolonize a Museum in Dakar Designed for Colonizers: A Conversation with Dr. El Hadji Malick Ndiaye
The Théodore Monod Museum of African Art was never meant to tell Africa’s story on its own terms. Founded in 1936 as part of a colonial ethnographic project, its mission was once to display African objects as curiosities of a vanished world — distant, exotic, and frozen in time. Today, the institution houses a collection…
Bridging Africa and The World Through Contemporary Art 