AFTER 20 years as president of Senegal Léopold Senghor decided in 1980, without being pushed, to step down. Such an event is unusual in Africa. Indeed, Mr Senghor was the first leader of a modern ...

Three months ago, in a bitter end to a beautiful friendship, Poet-President Leopold Senghor of peanut-growing Senegal, on the West African coast, booted out of office his old friend, Premier Mamadou ...

Celebrated Senegalese statesman and poet Leopold Sedar Senghor died Thursday in France at the age of 95. From Paris, Lisa Bryant has more on Senegal's founding president, who established one of Africa ...

Until recently. President Leopold Senghor and Premier Mamadou Dia of peanut-producing Senegal were as close as two nuts in a pod. Both worked feverishly to win Senegal’s independence from France in ...

Washington, DC — The former Senegalese President, Léopold Sédar Senghor, died, Thursday, at his home in the northern French town of Verson, after a battle against cancer. He was 95. One of Africa's ...

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 ...

Leading statesmen from Africa and beyond paid tribute to the Senegalese poet president Leopold Senghor after his death was announced. A hush fell on a summit of African leaders discussing regional ...

Dhaka, April 3 (BDNEWS)- A week-long cultural event marking the birth anniversary of Leopold Sedar Senghor, founder father of FRANCOPHONE, begins at Alliance Francaise Monday. Jointly organised by the ...

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 ...