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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Poet Leopold Senghor died this week. He was an artist and a political leader. In his 95 years, he served as the president of Senegal and created the concept of Negritude—the idea that there are ...

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 ...

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 ...