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Léopold Sédar Senghor

Died in 2001

Léopold Sédar Senghor was born in 1906 in Joal, on the Senegalese coast, and passed the agrégation in grammar in 1935. The year before, with Aimé Césaire and Léon-Gontran Damas, he had founded the journal from which négritude emerged. A prisoner of war from 1940 to 1942, then deputy for Senegal in the French Assembly, he became in 1960 the first president of the country and left power in December 1980, in favour of Abdou Diouf. In 1962, his Prime Minister Mamadou Dia had been arrested, accused of attempting a coup d'état. Elected to the Académie française in 1983, he died in Normandy on 20 December 2001.

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