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Created February 24, 1957, the University of Dakar was officially opened December 9, 1959 after a long evolution marked by: - The creation of an African School of Medicine, first draft of a higher education in Africa in 1918 (Decree of January 14, 1918); - the creation of the French Institute of Black Africa (IFAN) in 1936; - the creating a certificate of Physics, Chemistry and Biology (PCB), preparatory to medical studies and the opening in the early fifty colleges academically attached to the University of Bordeaux as part of what was called in 1950 Institute of Advanced Studies in Dakar - the erection of independent faculties instead of these colleges to form the 18 th French University, academically attached at the Universities of Paris and Bordeaux in 1957; - the change of name University of Dakar, which becomes Cheikh Anta Diop University in Dakar March 30, 1987; - educational reform following the National Dialogue on Higher Education and the creation of the Faculty

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