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Léopold Sédar Senghor

1906 - 2001

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Léopold Sédar Senghor ( song-GOR, French: [leɔpɔl sedaʁ sɑ̃ɡɔʁ], Wolof: Léwopóol Sedaar Seŋoor; 9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese politician, cultural theorist and poet who served as the first president of Senegal from 1960 to 1980. Ideologically an African socialist, Senghor was one of the major theoreticians of Négritude. He 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Léopold Sédar Senghor is the 376th most popular writer (up from 461st in 2019), the most popular biography from Senegal and the most popular Senegalese Writer.

Léopold Sédar Senghor was a French-speaking African poet, politician, and statesman who was the first president of Senegal. He is most famous for his contributions to the arts and literature.

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Among writers, Léopold Sédar Senghor ranks 376 out of 7,302. Before him are Carlos Castaneda, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Mikhail Sholokhov, Jean Genet, Theocritus, and Lorenzo Valla. After him are Lucy Maud Montgomery, Salman Rushdie, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Margaret Mitchell, Appian, and Karl May.

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Among people born in 1906, Léopold Sédar Senghor ranks 28. Before him are Vladimir Prelog, Ernst Ruska, Albert Hofmann, Victor Vasarely, Roberto Rossellini, and Hans Bethe. After him are Sayyid Qutb, Giuseppe Farina, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Ilse Koch, Sergei Korolev, and Hassan al-Banna. Among people deceased in 2001, Léopold Sédar Senghor ranks 10. Before him are George Harrison, Didi, Josef Bican, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Don Bradman, and Jack Lemmon. After him are Clifford Shull, Jorge Amado, G. E. M. Anscombe, Christiaan Barnard, Sabiha Gökçen, and Bill Hewlett.

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In Senegal

Among people born in Senegal, Léopold Sédar Senghor ranks 1 out of 138. After him are Abdoulaye Wade (1926), Ségolène Royal (1953), Abdou Diouf (1935), Patrick Vieira (1976), Youssou N'Dour (1959), Ousmane Sembène (1923), Ali Dia (1965), Macky Sall (1961), Cheikh Anta Diop (1923), Mariama Bâ (1929), and Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow (1921).

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Among WRITERS In Senegal

Among writers born in Senegal, Léopold Sédar Senghor ranks 1. After him are Mariama Bâ (1929), Aminata Sow Fall (1941), Birago Diop (1908), Cheikh Hamidou Kane (1928), Khady Sylla (1963), Fatou Diome (1968), and Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (1990).

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