biography
| name: |
Senghor, Léopold Sédar
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pronunciation:
[sãgaw(r)]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1906–2001)
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| biography:
| Senegalese statesman and first president (1960–80), born in Joal, W Senegal. He became a teacher, writer, and politician, a member of the French Constituent Assembly in 1945, deputy for Senegal in the French National Assembly (1948–58), and president following his country's independence. He also won several literary awards as a poet, and was the first black African to join the French literary institute, the Academie Francaise. |
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