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Léopold Sédar Senghor

Date of Birth: 9 October 1906
Place of Birth: Joal, French West Africa (Senegal)
Died: 20 December 2001


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Macron ponders Africa play

He works closely with the Africa specialists in the presidential diplomatic team at the Elysée: Franck Paris who was a Macron classmate in the 2004 graduation year – named after Senegal's former President Léopold Sédar Senghor – at the Ecole National d'Administration; his career at the Quai and in Brussels has focussed on African defence and development issues; his colleague Marie Audouard is a career diplomat...


Jammeh tilts the playing field

Closer to home past difficulties between past leaders Jawara and the late President Léopold Senghor of Senegal which surrounds Gambia except for its coastline are nothing compared to the rifts between Jammeh and President Macky Sall...


Zinsou stretches his lead

Born in 1953 in France where his father René was studying medicine before later becoming personal physician to Senegal's first President Léopold Sédar Senghor Lionel Zinsou completed his education at the Institut d'études politiques (Sciences-Pô) in Paris and the London School of Economics...


The Caliph's council

Senegal's first two Presidents Léopold Sédar Senghor and Abdou Diouf respected Touba's special status as the virtual private property of the Mbacké family...


Fifty years on, forget the first forty

The remarkable thing about Wade’s speech at the inauguration was that while praising the past ‘heroes of the nation’ he made no mention of the two Presidents who preceded him Léopold Sédar Senghor and Abdou Diouf...


The son also rises

Lawyer Aïssata Tall Sall a former Parti Socialiste Communications Minister claims Wade is testing the water hoping that if he can prolong his mandate he can later change the constitution again and pass on the succession as President Léopold Senghor did in 1980 when he picked Abdou Diouf as his successor...


Oil and oligarchs

2006 will also see celebrations in October marking the centenary of the birth of Senegal's first President Léopold Sédar Senghor...


Sopi and Seck

According to another potential présidentiable Serigne Mboup Managing Director of the state oil company Petrosen Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport is now the busiest airport in West Africa...


Wade makes his mark

This connection is a curious legacy of the late President Léopold Sédar Senghor's experiments with controlled multi-party politics in the 1970s...


Tables turned

Apart from the beaches and constant sunshine many visitors come to experience the music art and literature which poet-president Léopold Sédar Senghor first put on the international map...


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