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

Three months ago, in a bitter end to a beautiful friendship, Poet-President Leopold Senghor of peanut-growing Senegal, on the West African coast, booted out of office his old friend, Premier ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than 20 years after the death of Léopold Sédar Senghor — the writer, poet and first president of Senegal after the country’s independence from France — his name is still generating ...

More than 300 books collected by the first president of independent Senegal, Léopold Sédar Senghor, will be transferred to Dakar after the Senegalese government stepped in to stop them being ...

Senghor’s contribution to the negritude movement started by Aime Fernand David Cesaire from Martinique in the French Caribbean, Leon – Gontran Damas and himself was a complex idea of ...

We also discussed the significance of Negritude which we regarded as a necessary but misguided defence of Afrikan culture and identity. This essay finally provided a synopsis of the respective ...

A poet, writer and professor before he became president, Senghor was a champion of the anti-colonial "Negritude" movement in the 1930s.

An auction in France of items belonging to the first Senegalese president has been delayed, as the government in Dakar negotiates to buy them directly. Léopold Sédar Senghor's possessions ...