• After being first proposed by former Senegal president Léopold Sédar Senghor 52 years ago, the country has opened the Museum of Black Civilizations, one of...
  • On Thursday, Senegalese President Macky Sall inaugurated the 150,000-square-foot Museum of Black Civilizations in Dakar, some seven years after...
  • Fifty-two years ago, just after Senghor had hailed Senegal as the capital of Black Civilisation at the opening of the festival of Black Arts, the Museum of...
  • The museum would provide welcoming spaces for these artworks and artefacts positioning Senegal as an intellectual and cultural capital of the black world.
  • alt. Senegal is set to open the world’s largest museum of black civilizations in its capital city of Dakar on Dec 6, 2018.
  • As a reminder, the first to have launched the idea of a Museum of Black Civilizations in Senegal is President Léopold Sédar Senghor (1960-1980)...
  • December 6th marked an important day for Senegal and the African diaspora, as the Musée Civilisations Noires ( Museum of Black Civilization or MCN)...
  • The Museum of Black Civilizations has room for about 18,000 works of art, although many of the galleries remain unfilled. Besides Senegal, Nigeria and Benin...
  • The Senegal has recently gotten a new museum which is focused on celebrating black civilizations all over the world.
  • The Museum of Black Civilisations (French: Musée des civilisations noires) is a national museum in Dakar, Senegal, that opened on 6 December 2018.