Acting
Léopold Sédar Senghor
- Born
- Oct 9, 1906 · Aged 95
- Died
- Dec 20, 2001
- Place of birth
- Joal-la-Portugaise, Senegal
- Gender
- Male
- Movie credits
- 9
- TV credits
- 3
Also known as (1)
- Leopold Sedar Senghor
Biography
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, he was the major theoretician of Négritude. Senghor was a proponent of African culture, black identity and African empowerment within the framework of French-African ties. He advocated for the extension of full civil and political rights for France's African territories while arguing that French Africans would be better off within a federal French structure than as independent…
