Côte d'Ivoire hosts the teaching of the Shoah
The Shoah Memorial hosted a two-day seminar in Grand Bassam, Côte d'Ivoire, for an audience of ministerial officials on the integration of genocides and mass killings into the education system. Objective: to integrate the teaching of the Shoah.
At the request of the authorities of Côte d'Ivoire and UNESCO, the Shoah Memorial intervened in Grand Bassam for two days before 30 inspectors general and senior ministerial officials on the integration of genocides and mass killings into the education system.
Côte d'Ivoire is one of the most advanced countries in this field, thanks to the compulsory education on the genocide of the Tutsis and the conflict in Biafra.
Hosted by Hélène Dumas, Joel Kotek, Tal Brutmmann and Antoine Germa, this seminar aimed to strengthen the Ivorian curriculum in order to soon integrate the teaching of the Shoah and develop the comparative approach. The Ministry of Education naturally includes this approach to the history of genocides in the process of civil reconciliation that the country has been experiencing for five years and of which education is a major priority.
