• Blaise Adolphe Antoine Marie Senghor (also Blaise Wali Antoine Marie Senghor, Joal, now Joal-Fadiouth, Senegal, 30 May 1932 – Paris, France, 6 October...
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    diplomat Blaise Senghor, Senegalese filmmaker and diplomat Blaise Sonnery, French cyclist Blaise Daniel Staples, American classicist Blaise de Vigenère...
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    for Dakar, replacing Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport, which had become too small. It is named after Blaise Diagne, the first black African elected...
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  • Augustin Senghor (born 1965), Senegalese politician Blaise Senghor (1932–1976), Senegalese film director, nephew of Léopold Sédar Senghor Colette Senghor (1925–2019)...
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    Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport (French: Aéroport international Léopold-Sédar-Senghor, IATA: DKR, ICAO: GOOY) is an international freight...
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    Ibrahima Sarr[citation needed], Ousmane Sembène, Moussa Sène Absa, Blaise Senghor, Mansour Sora Wade, Paulin Soumanou Vieyra, As Thiam, Momar Thiam, Moussa...
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  • 1961 Chimichimito José Martín Venezuela 1962 Le grand Magal de Touba Blaise Senghor Senegal 1963 Tori Erkko Kivikoski Finland 1964 Sunday Lark Sanford Semel...
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    Blaise Ndala is a Canadian writer. He is most noted for his novel Sans capote ni kalachnikov, which won the 2019 edition of Le Combat des livres. Originally...
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  • Airport may refer to: Blaise Diagne International Airport, a passenger airport opened in 2017 near Diass, Senegal Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport...
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  • Appel by Jan Vrijman Silver Bear for Best Short Film: Stars at Noon by Blaise Senghor Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize: Nahanni by Donald Wilder The Ancestors...
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    and Washington, D.C. from Johannesburg via Dakar. The old Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar is now only exists as a cargo hub. Senegal...
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  • Baobab opens. 1972 – Enda Third World and Centre Culturel Régional Blaise Senghor established. 1973 – Council for the Development of Social Science Research...
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  • are located at the Léopold-Sédar-Senghor (DKR) international airport in Dakar Yoff. The company also has a base at Blaise-Diagne International Airport (DSS)...
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    Samba Amath Dansokho Mamadou Dia Blaise Diagne Abdou Diouf Lamine Guèye Ségolène Royal Idrissa Seck Léopold Sédar Senghor Umar Tal Abdoulaye Wade Doudou...
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    disbanded. From the ranks of the dissolved Ligue, former French soldier Lamine Senghor from Senegal and young lawyer Joseph Gothon-Lunion from Guadeloupe founded...
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    governments under the influence of African Heads of State, Léopold Sédar Senghor of Senegal, Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia, Hamani Diori of Niger and Prince...
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    Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgium) Jacques Roumain (Haiti) Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal) Blaise Cendrars (Switzerland) Alfred Mercier (Louisiana) Simonie de la...
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    in response to attempts at changing the constitution to allow President Blaise Compaoré to run again and extend his 27 years in office. Pressure for political...
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  • Jacques Prévert (1900–77) Raymond Queneau (1903–76) Négritude Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906–2001) Birago Diop (1906–89) Aimé Césaire (1913–2008) Pierre Corneille...
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  • (Mixed race) Blaise Diagne 1914–34 (African) Galandou Diouf 1934–40 (African) 1945-1960: Amadou Lamine Guèye (African) Léopold Sédar Senghor (African) Mamadou...
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    president until 1987 when he was deposed and assassinated in a coup led by Blaise Compaoré, who became president and ruled the country until his removal on...
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    Communes citizens chose Lamine Guèye, Senegal/Mauritania Léopold Sédar Senghor, Ivory Coast/Upper Volta Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Dahomey/Togo Sourou-Migan...
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    Senegal. The poet, philosopher and first President of Senegal Léopold Sédar Senghor tried to transform Dakar into the "Sub-Saharan African Athens" (l'Athènes...
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    Garros Airport Terminated Senegal Dakar Blaise Diagne International Airport Terminated Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport Terminated Seychelles...
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    members of the municipal council. The current mayor of Gorée is Augustin Senghor, elected in 2002. The island is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, since September...
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  • King Khalid International Airport Senegal Dakar Blaise Diagne International Airport Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport Terminated Seychelles Mahé...
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    volte-face with respect to the Mali Federation advocated by Léopold Sédar Senghor. The Voltaic assembly supported Upper Volta's membership in the Federation...
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    race) Blaise Diagne 1914–1934 (African) Galandou Diouf 1934–1940 (African) 1945–1959: Amadou Lamine Guèye 1945–1951 (African) Léopold Sedar Senghor 1945–1959...
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    by the close alliance with Léopold Senghor, who had courted the Mourides and other Sufi orders from early on. Senghor campaigned on stabilizing the price...
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    pioneered rationalism as a method for acquiring scientific knowledge, while Blaise Pascal became famous for his work on probability and fluid mechanics; both...
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