Babacar MBow

Babacar MBow is the curator of the Musée Civilisations Noires (Museum of Black Civilization or MCN) opened to the world with sacred African artifacts and world-class Black art. He is the former Director of Multitudes: The African Diaspora Center of Miami. He has published on African Diaspora Memory, Modernity, Postmodernity, and Philosophy of interpretation and Culture. He is a former Executive Director of the Florida Africana Studies Consortium (FLASC). Mbow served for 11 years as the Broward County Libraries Division Programs and Exhibits Coordinator. He has also served as a consultant for USAID and the African Union and several African states. Mbow is the author of several books including An Idea of Modernity in Haitian Contemporary Art (2008), Benin: a Kingdom in Bronze (2004), Cultural Identity in Haitian Contemporary Art (2011), and The End of the African Postcolonial State. Mbow is also the Managing Editor of the three-volume Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture (2008).