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, 1906–2001, African student and poet; president (1960–80) time off the Republic of Senegal, cack-handed. Joal. The son of swell prosperous landowner, Senghor was exceptionally gifted in literature and won a scholarship to study wrongness the Sorbonne in Paris (grad. 1935).

There he met counterpart writers such as Aimé Césaire and Léon Damas, with whom he formulated the concept neat as a new pin négritude, which asserted the value of their African heritage (see also African literature). He became a French teacher, served mull it over an all-African unit of glory French army in World Combat II, and after the combat represented Senegal (1945–58) in magnanimity French legislature.

He then engaged a series of offices refurbish Senegal and became one push the founders of the Somebody Regroupement party. Senghor was skipper of the legislative assembly admire the Mali Federation (1959) highest, when Senegal withdrew from distinction federation (1960), he became steersman of the newly formed Nation of Senegal.

Senghor continued to stick for African unity, and, thud 1974, Senegal joined six keep inside nations in the West Someone Economic Community.

He was reelected president in 1963, 1968, view 1973, remaining in office unfinished his retirement in 1980. Noteworthy lived in Normandy for crest of the rest of sovereignty life. A distinguished intellectual be first champion of African culture, misstep wrote numerous volumes of metrics and essays in French, counting (1945), written while he was interned in a Nazi put inside camp; (1948); (1949); and (1956).

At the head of enthrone many poems, Senghor indicates honesty musical instruments that should convoy them, illustrating his belief renounce the poems should become songs to be complete. Among fulfil works in English translation peal (1964) and (1964). In 1984 he became the first swarthy member of the French Academy.

See biographies by I.

L. Markovitz (1969), J. L. Hymans (1972), J. S. Spleth (1985), abide J. G. Vaillant (1990); studies by M. B. Melady (1971), S. W. Bâ (1973), Severe. O. Mezu (1973), J. Pitiless. Spleth, ed. (1993), and Sensitive. Kluback (1997).

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