Banjul, the Gambia — Senegalese poet and statement, founder of the Senegalese Democratic Bloc. Senghor was elected president of Senegal in the 1960s. He retired from office in 1980, becoming the very ...

The relevance of Negritude as espoused by Leopold Senghor in a world moving towards globalization was the focus of a one-day seminar held last week at the University of Lagos. The event tagged, ...

PARIS — Leopold Sedar Senghor, a former president of Senegal and poet who won acclaim in Africa’s presidential palaces and France’s universities and literary salons, died at his home in Normandy on ...

AFTER 20 years as president of Senegal Léopold Senghor decided in 1980, without being pushed, to step down. Such an event is unusual in Africa. Indeed, Mr Senghor was the first leader of a modern ...

Albeit less renowned than his friends Cesaire and Senghor, Léon-Gontran Damas remains one of the great poets of the 20th century. The non-conformist poet Léon-Gontran Damas would have turned 100 years ...

Ready to set the world on fire, young students Aime Cesaire, 22, and Leon Damas, 23, teamed up with 29-year-old Léopold Sédar Senghor in 1935 to publish the literary L’Étudiant noir (The Black Student ...

The most influential Francophone Caribbean writer of his generation, Aimé Césaire was one of the founding fathers of Negritude, the black consciousness movement that sought to assert pride in African ...

Sisters Paulette Nardal (back), Lucy Nardal (left), and Jane Nardal (right) at their apartment in Clamart, France, on October 19, 1935. Courtesy of Archives de Martinique. Ready to set the world on ...