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David Diop

Died in 1960

David Diop was born on 9 July 1927 in Bordeaux, to a Senegalese father and a Cameroonian mother, Maria Mandessi Bell, of the family of the Duala kings. In fragile health, he spent part of his youth in French hospitals and sanatoriums, published his first poems in Présence africaine and had Léopold Sédar Senghor as a teacher. He taught at the Lycée Delafosse in Dakar, then directed the teacher-training college of Kindia in Guinea, and died in August 1960 in the crash of an Air France plane off Dakar.

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