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More than 300 books collected by the first president of independent Senegal, Léopold Sédar Senghor, will be transferred to Dakar after the Senegalese government stepped in to stop them being auctioned ...

PARIS — Leopold Sedar Senghor, a former president of Senegal and poet who won acclaim in Africa’s presidential palaces and France’s universities and literary salons, died at his home in Normandy on ...

Léopold Sédar Senghor is considered as one of Africa's greatest statesmen, poets and intellectuals. After a spell of imprisonment during the Second World War, he became the first president of Senegal.

In 1961, less than twelve months after the independence of both Mauritania and Senegal, I was in my last year of high school at Van Vollenhoven, the prestigious French lycée in Dakar, Senegal. I still ...

LEOPOLD SENGHOR, who has died in Normandy aged 95, smoothly straddled the political divide between African and French cultures as President of Senegal for two decades; but he preferred to be known for ...

Senegal's first president is rightly revered for instilling democracy in Senegal and founding the négritude philosophical movement. But Senghor was a poet first and foremost. Léopold Sédar Senghor ...

Lois Mailou Jones Poems of Leopold Sedar Senghor, 1996 Silkscreen Prints Prints & Graphic Art Signed, numbered, 109/300 Estimate Realized Price -44% ...