Papa ibra tall biography of mahatma gandhi

Papa Ibra Tall – was born in 1935 in Tivavouane (Senegal). In 1955, he  attended the Special School of Architecture and Fine Arts in Paris. He illustrated book covers for “Presence Africaine” for its editor, Alioune Diop, and it was in Paris that he discovered the militants of Negritude and black American jazz.

In 1959, Tall organized an exhibition of black artists living in Europe for the second Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Rome.

In 1960 during a study tour in the U.S., he met jazz musician John Coltrane and activist Malcolm X.

Upon independence, Tall returned to Senegal and became head of the “Section de Recherches Plastiques Nègres”.

It was at the Craft school of Sèvres (France) in 1962-1963 that Tall familiarized himself with ceramics, silk screen and tapestry, in which he excelled when he joined the National Manufacture of Tapestry created by President Senghor in 1966.

Between 1975 and 1983, he became involved in various functions f