Here’s a list of travel destinations inspired by the negritude movement, ... 23, teamed up with 29-year-old Léopold Sédar Senghor in 1935 to publish the literary L’Étudiant noir ...

Here’s a list of travel destinations inspired by the negritude movement, ... 23, teamed up with 29-year-old Léopold Sédar Senghor in 1935 to publish the literary L’Étudiant noir ...

On July 4, 2025, at Osun State University, Professor Adebooye, the Vice-Chancellor, presented the 2025 Leopold Sedar Senghor ...

Négritude was a Francophone movement to rethink what it meant to be Black and African. Scholar Merve Fejzula explores the dynamic debates happening in the early- to mid-20th century among ...

But the friendship of these two poet-politicians shouldn’t occlude the differences between them. Senghor’s idea of négritude was more essentialist than Césaire’s, and his conception of colonialism far ...

Négritude, as formulated by Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, and others, revalorized the historic contributions of Black creatives toward the development of a universal civilization.

While pro-Senghor demonstrators chanted, “A single hat on a single head,” more than 1,000,000 Senegalese shuffled to the polls and handed Senghor a 99.5% oui on a new Senghor-tailored ...

Until recently. President Leopold Senghor and Premier Mamadou Dia of peanut-producing Senegal were as close as two nuts in a pod. Both worked feverishly to win Senegal's independence from France ...

Senghor et les Arts, réinventer l’universel, Musée du Quai Branly, Paris, until 19 November. * A version of this article appears in print in the 3 August, 2023 edition of Al-Ahram Weekly.

Senegal buys back library of poet-president Léopold Senghor from France. More than 300 books collected by the first president of independent Senegal, Léopold Sédar Senghor, will be transferred ...

Léopold Sédar Senghor's possessions - including military medals and jewellery - were to be sold in the city of Caen. The current president of Senegal, Macky Sall, ...

Based on archive material, Manthia Diawara organizes an imagined dialogue between Léopold Senghor, one of the founders of the concept of Negritude, and Wole Soyinka, a Nigerian writer awarded the ...