Léopold Sédar Senghor

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Born: 1906-10-09 · Joal-la-Portugaise, Senegal

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 ident…