Dakar, March 3 (APS) – The Minister of Culture and Historical Heritage, Alioune Sow, hailed the “reference intellectual and moral values” embodied by the former Minister of National Education, Dr. Ibra Mamadou Wane, who died Friday in Dakar, at the age of 96.
“With his disappearance, Senegal loses a great builder of the Nation, a son with intellectual and moral values of reference,” he said on behalf of the government, in a message sent to APS.
He recalled that in recognition of his prestigious contribution to the construction of the Nation, his department appointed him, and in good understanding with the mayor of Mboumba (Podor) and his municipal council, as sponsor of the reading center and d cultural activities (CLAC) of this town in the department of Podor, which is his native land. This center was inaugurated on January 12th.
Alioune Sow also hailed the political career of Dr. Ibra Mamadou Wane who, from 1962 to 1965, was Minister of National Education and Culture of independent Senegal. ”It is in this capacity that he piloted with Alioune Diop, the organization of the first World Festival of Negro Arts in 1966. From 1966 to 1968, Dr Ibra Mamadou Wane was Minister of Energy and ‘hydraulic’, he recalled.
Mr. Wane was chief physician of the infectious diseases department at the Aristide Le Dantec hospital, deputy director and founding member of the West African Institute for the Fight against Cancer (Pavillon Joliot Curie).
The former mayor of Podor (north) was also intern doctor of the hospitals of Nice (France) and teacher of the super framework at the Colobane school. He held parliamentary office in six legislatures from 1959 to 1988 and was chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the said institution from 1966 to 1988.
Dr. Ibra Mamadou Wane was president of the Association of Mayors of Senegal and president of the Regional Assembly of the River. He was a member of the political bureau of the PS, where he served, among other things, as deputy administrative secretary, secretary general in charge of the women’s movement. He was also secretary general of the Coordination of the Socialist Party (PS) of Podor.
The former mayor of Podor (north) was also intern doctor of the hospitals of Nice (France) and teacher of the super framework at the Colobane school. He held parliamentary office in six legislatures from 1959 to 1988 and was chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the said institution from 1966 to 1988.
Mr. Wane was President of the Senegalese Association for Assistance to Lepers (ASAL) and was a member of the Federation of Black African Students in France (FEANF) and the Association of African Students of the Academy of Montpellier (AGEAM).