Léopold Sédar Senghor
Birthday
1906/10/09
Day of death
2001/12/20 (95 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Joal-la-Portugaise, Senegal
Also know as
Leopold Sedar Senghor
Biography
Léopold Sédar Senghor (9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese poet, politician and cultural theorist who was the first president of Senegal (1960–80). Ideologically an African socialist, he was the major theoretician of Négritude. Senghor was a proponent of African culture, black identity and African empowerment within the framework of French-African ties. He advocated for the extension of full civil and political rights for France's African territories while arguing that French Af...Read more
Acting
(1982) Iba N'Diaye
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(1972) Prière aux Masques - De Léopold Sedar Senghor
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(1966) Le Sénégal et le Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres
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(1995) Léon G. Damas
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(1987) Aimé Césaire: The Mask of Words
as Self
(1973) Français, si vous saviez
as Self
(1972) Le Grand Échiquier
as Self
(1975) Apostrophes
as Self
(1976) 30 millions d'amis
as Self