Two decades after his death, a collection of over 800 works that the first president of Senegal owned is moving from France to Dakar. By Aida Alami Reporting from Paris More than 20 years after the ...

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 ...

Kéré Architecture has used compacted-earth blocks to create a headquarters for the non-profit Goethe-Institut in Dakar, ...

The Pan African Writers Association has sent its deepest condolences to the President, Government and People of Senegal, on the death of former President Leopold Sedar Senghor. In a tribute from PAWA ...

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In 1961, less than twelve months after the independence of both Mauritania and Senegal, I was in my last year of high school at Van Vollenhoven, the prestigious French lycée in Dakar, Senegal. I still ...

Former Senegalise President Leopold Senghor (1974). Photo by Henri Bureau/Sygma/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images In their fight for freedom from France, what the people of ...

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, ...

An investigation and reflection on the figure of the Senegalese poet and politician Léopold Sédar Senghor. The filmmaker collects his memories, explores his own memory and that of his family to write ...