Claude Ardouin
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Ph.D., is Head of the African Section of the British Museum, London, and Program Coordinator of the National Museums of Kenya Support Program. He received his doctorate in history and anthropology from the State University at Leningrad. He was Head of the Département d’Ethnologie et de Sociologie at the Institut des Sciences Humaines in Bamako (Mali), Director of the Musée National du Mali and Executive Director of the West African Museums Program (WAMP). He has worked as consultant and advisor to museums in Africa and the USA, developed, among others, a master plan for a new National Museum in Burkina Faso and is a Founding Member of the International Council of African Museums (AFRICOM).
Among his publications are: “National Languages and Communication in Museums,” in: What Museums for Africa? Heritage in the Future, ICOM, Paris, 1992; Claude Ardouin and Emmanuel Arinze (eds.), Museums and the Community. Materials of the Seminar on Local Museums, London, 1995; “Vers un trafic licite des biens culturels? Quelques réflexions et suggestions à partir d’une perspective anthropologique,” in: International Journal of Cultural Property, No. 1, Vol. 4, 1995, pp. 91–104; “Culture, Museums, and Development in Africa,” in: Philip Altbach and Salah M. Hassan (eds.), The Muse of Modernity: Essays on Culture and Development in Africa, Africa World Press, Trenton, 1996; Claude Ardouin, Museums and Archaeology in West Africa, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington/J. Curry, Oxford, 1997; Claude Ardouin, and Emmanuel Arinze (eds.), Museums and History in West Africa, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington/J. Curry, Oxford, London, 2000.
