Léopold Sédar Senghor (/sɒŋˈɡɔːr/; French: [sɑ̃ɡɔʁ]; 9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who was...
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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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Léopold Sédar Senghor Stadium, formerly the Stade de l'Amitie, is a multi-purpose stadium in Dakar, Senegal. It is currently used mostly for football...
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The passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor, formerly known as passerelle Solférino (or pont de Solférino), is a footbridge over the River Seine in the 7th arrondissement...
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Présence Africaine, 1960 Senghor, Léopold Sedar, The Collected Poetry, University of Virginia Press, 1998 Senghor, Léopold Sédar, Ce que je crois. Paris:...
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Omnigraphics Inc – via Internet Archive. Vaillant, Janet. "Homage to Léopold Sédar Senghor: 1906-2001" (Document). Indiana University. Vaillant, Janet (1990)...
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each proclaimed independence. Léopold Sédar Senghor was elected Senegal's first president in August 1960. Pro-African, Senghor advocated a brand of African...
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First Lady of Senegal from 1960 to 1980, as the wife of President Léopold Sédar Senghor following independence in 1960. Hubert was born in Mouzay, Meuse...
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candidate in 2007 and 2012. The best-known figure of the party was Léopold Sédar Senghor, the first president of Senegal. The Socialist Party of Senegal's...
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who had taken office in January 1981 following the resignation of Léopold Sédar Senghor, defeated four other candidates in the presidential election. Members...
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Institut Français du Sénégal (redirect from Institut français Léopold Sédar Senghor)
the culture of Senegal and, more generally, cultural diversity. Léopold Sédar Senghor called this intercultural cooperation le dialogue des cultures (the...
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he was planning to stage a military coup to overthrow President Léopold Sédar Senghor. Of rural origin, Mamadou Dia was born in Khombole, in the Thies...
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Senegal. It lies north of downtown Dakar and immediately north of Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport. The town is built along the broad beach at...
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Eugénie Tell. In 1946 one of their daughters, Ginette, married Léopold Sédar Senghor, the poet and future president of independent Senegal. In 1922,...
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des Invalides Pont Alexandre III Pont de la Concorde Passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor (1999) (pedestrian, formerly the Passerelle de Solférino, renamed...
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of Senegal, and theorist of Négritude Léopold Sédar Senghor. The citation provided to him records that "Senghor is one of the leading literary figures...
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downtown Dakar. It serves as the main airport for Dakar, replacing Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport, which had become too small. It is named after...
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concept of négritude about feeling black, expressed among others by Léopold Sédar Senghor. It has since gained in popularity and has primarily been used to...
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Marcien Towa (section Critique of Senghor)
he gained fame by publishing two critical essays: one on Senghor, titled "Léopold Sédar Senghor: Négritude ou Servitude?" and the other on what he called...
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congress with Modibo Keïta named the president of the meeting and Léopold Sédar Senghor of Senegal being the key leader on many issues, including developing...
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Pont Alexandre III is the next bridge downstream; the Passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor is the next bridge upstream. The architect Jean-Rodolphe Perronet...
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operated charter and air taxi flights. Its main base was Dakar-Yoff-Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport. On April 24, 2009, the airline suspended...
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of Senegal. It was adopted in 1960. The lyrics were written by Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegal's first president, while the music is composed by Frenchman...
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(Gold Coast, now Ghana), Julius Nyerere (Tanganyika, now Tanzania), Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal), Nnamdi Azikiwe (Nigeria), Patrice Lumumba (DRC) and Félix...
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Belle Histoire de Leuk-le-Lièvre written by Abdoulaye Sadji and Léopold Sédar Senghor in 1953. This short-lived animation series was based on African...
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Valéry Giscard d'Estaing – and one foreign head of state, the poet Léopold Sédar Senghor of Senegal, who was also the first African elected, in 1983. Other...
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Joans, Bob Kaufman, Krista Franklin, Aimé Césaire, Suzanne Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, René Ménil, Kool Keith, Terence Nance, Will Alexander, Kara Walker...
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taking the seat that his friend and former president of Senegal Léopold Sédar Senghor had held. He died at the age of 94, and is the longest-lived French...
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Black Woman (album), by Sonny Sharrock "Femme noire", a poem by Léopold Sédar Senghor All pages with titles containing Black Woman Black Man (disambiguation)...
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Press. p. 48. Letters of George Sand, Vol 3 Beier, Ulli (2002). "Léopold Sédar Senghor: A Personal Memoir". Research in African Literatures. 33 (4): 3–11...
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