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Léopold Sédar Senghor

1906 - 2001

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Léopold Sédar Senghor (; French: [sɑ̃ɡɔʁ]; 9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese politician, cultural theorist and poet who served as the first president of Senegal from 1960 to 1980. Ideologically an African socialist, Senghor was one of the major theoreticians of Négritude. He was a proponent of African culture, black identity, and African empowerment within the framework of French-African ties. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Léopold Sédar Senghor has received more than 1,029,837 page views. His biography is available in 76 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 74 in 2019). Léopold Sédar Senghor is the 461st most popular writer (up from 463rd in 2019), the most popular biography from Senegal and the most popular Senegalese Writer.

Léopold Sédar Senghor was a French-speaking African poet, politician, and statesman who was the first president of Senegal. He is most famous for his contributions to the arts and literature.

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Notable Works

Poems
1964
Prose and poetry
African literature
Consists of a selection of passages translated from Senghor's scattered prose writings and speeches and from his book, Nation et voie Africaine du socialisme.
1965
Selected poems
1964
Léopold Sédar Senghor
1969
Anthologie de la nouvelle poésie nègre et malgache de langue française
1948

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Léopold Sédar Senghor ranks 461 out of 7,302. Before him are Jacques Hébert, Héloïse, Graham Greene, Vasily Grossman, Lesya Ukrainka, and Yevgeny Zamyatin. After him are Tibullus, Marguerite de Navarre, Saint-John Perse, John Galsworthy, Eyvind Johnson, and Margaret Atwood.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Léopold Sédar Senghor ranks 33. Before him are Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Soichiro Honda, Ed Gein, Hermann Fegelein, Alexey Stakhanov, and Giuseppe Farina. After him are Léon Degrelle, Hans Asperger, Josef Kramer, Klaus Mann, Wassily Leontief, and Dino Buzzati. Among people deceased in 2001, Léopold Sédar Senghor ranks 11. Before him are Didi, Claude Shannon, Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary, Jorge Amado, Jack Lemmon, and Herbert A. Simon. After him are Ahmad Shah Massoud, Sabiha Gökçen, Laurent-Désiré Kabila, Christiaan Barnard, Fred Hoyle, and Wilhelm Mohnke.

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In Senegal

Among people born in Senegal, Léopold Sédar Senghor ranks 1 out of 138. After him are Ségolène Royal (1953), Abdoulaye Wade (1926), Patrick Vieira (1976), Macky Sall (1961), Abdou Diouf (1935), Youssou N'Dour (1959), Ousmane Sembène (1923), Cheikh Anta Diop (1923), Sadio Mané (1992), Patrice Evra (1981), and Mariama Bâ (1929).

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Among WRITERS In Senegal

Among writers born in Senegal, Léopold Sédar Senghor ranks 1. After him are Mariama Bâ (1929), Aminata Sow Fall (1941), Birago Diop (1908), Cheikh Hamidou Kane (1928), Fatou Diome (1968), Khady Sylla (1963), and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (1990).

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