Penda Mbow (born April 1955) is a Senegalese historian and activist. Minister of Culture in the government Boye for a few months in 2001, she was assistant professor of medieval history at the University Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar and president of the Citizen Movement. In 1986 she obtained a doctorate in medieval history at the University of Provence with a thesis entitled The third cycle Mamluk military aristocracy based on the cadastre of Ibn al-Ji'an elements of comparison with France. On 22 May 2011 she was awarded the John Paul II Peace1, a distinction awarded by the Vatican which was presented to him by the Apostolic Nuncio, Archbishop Luis Mariano Montemayor. Historian by training, she is one of the few female specialists in Africa. Apart from its course at UCAD, Penda Mbow is active in Citizen Movement, an organization that aims to provide citizens with skills to enable them to assume fully their citizenship to live independently and to acquire resources to enable them to judge and make decisions with full knowledge of the facts. Figureheads to be given as an example to the new generation ...