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The new Minister of National Education, appointed Friday, May 20, succeeds Jean-Michel Blanquer. Aged 56, he is the former president of the Representative Council of Black Associations in France (Cran).
He takes the head of the biggest ministry of the State. At 56, Pap Ndiaye succeeds Jean-Michel Blanquer in Education and Sarah El Haïry in Youth. “I may be a symbol, that of meritocracy, but perhaps also that of diversity. I take no pride in it, but rather a sense of duty and responsibility”, says Pap Ndiaye. He was until then director of the Museum of the History of Immigration in Paris.
Born of a Senegalese father and a French mother, he is a graduate of the École Normale Supérieure, has a history degree and is a professor at Sciences Po. In 2005, he co-founded the Representative Council of Black Associations in France (Cran). “He is a teacher and we need people like him”, believes Louis-Georges Tin, former chairman of this council. But Pap Ndiaye has sometimes had controversial remarks, as in 2020 on the French police. Its profile contrasts with that of its predecessor.