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Ndella Paye is an Afro-feminist, anti-racist activist and French Muslim theologian.

Childhood
Ndella Paye was born in Senegal in 1974. In 1993, at the age of 19, she left the country to join her father, a diplomat in France.

She graduated a bachelor degree of arabic and muslim theology, followed by a master degree of social science of religions at the École pratique des hautes études.

She quote Thomas Sankara, Angela Davis and her mother who is a nurse and a trade unionist as models.

For a few years, she has been living in London, where she joined the British association "Stand up to Racism" which helps refugees.

Religion
From these studies, she detached herself from the male interpretation of the Qur'an and learned that men and women are equal and that religions are subject to patriarchal interpretations.

Spirituality
Ndella Paye was a member of Participation et spiritualité musulmane. This association participated in the manif pour tous, marching against same-sex marriage. In 2017, she declared that she had distanced herself from this association.

For Hassan Aglagal, a Moroccan activist and member of the NPA, it is a "reactionary religious movement of Moroccan origin" which is in France, the branch of the Islamist movement Al Adl Wal Ihsane. For Rachid Benzine and Christian Delorme, PSM is an association of Muslim brothers. In 2008, Lydie Fournier notes a political reconciliation of PSM with the leaders of the UMP in Montpellier. For Caroline de Haas, it is a "sexist and homophobic" organization.

In 2013, Ndella Paye was invited to the summer university of Alliance VITA.

Tariq Ramadan Case
She also criticizes the moralizing role of religion, which sometimes prevents women victims of violence from expressing themselves, particularly during "l'affaire Tarik Ramadan".

Feminism
Ndella Paye defines herself as an intersectional and decolonial black Muslim feminist.

In 2017, she participated in the documentary “Ouvrir la voix” directed by Amandine Gay, which focused on the testimonies of black French women from European colonial history in Africa and the West Indies.

Secularism
Following the enactment of the 2004 law on religious signs in French public schools, Ndella Paye made a public commitment. She deplores the exclusion from school of young Muslim women who wear the headscarf and advocates the right to education for all women. The law is supposed to prononce the right of education for all women.

Regarding this law, she stated that it has "restricted the freedom of students, who are users, to come as they are", insisting that this restriction has been extended to mothers who wear the headscarf. She then created the "Mamans Toutes Égales" collective to help these mothers who were excluded from school outings.