Abdoulaye Sadji

Abdoulaye Sadji was born in 1910 in Rufisque, the son of a marabout. After Koranic school he moved to the French school and then to the École normale William-Ponty, and in 1929 became one of the first African schoolteachers, posted in several towns of the country. The second Senegalese to pass the baccalauréat, in 1932, he wrote in the press for the rights of Africans, opposed the thesis of assimilation and was regarded by Senghor as a pioneer of négritude. A school headmaster and then primary-school inspector, he also worked for the radio, and died on 25 December 1961.

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• NovelMaïmounaAbdoulaye Sadji · 1953not translated into EnglishLiterature