- Birthday
- 1906-10-09
- Deathday
- 2001-12-20
- Place of Birth
- Joal-la-Portugaise, Senegal
Léopold Sédar Senghor
ActingBiography
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 Africans would be better off within a federal French structure than as independent nation-states. Sen...
