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Senghor

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Sen·ghor  (sä-gôr), Léopold 1906-2001.
Senegalese poet and politician who served (1960-1980) as the first president of Senegal following independence from France. The author of many volumes of poetry, he contributed to the development of the concept of negritude.
Senghor (French) [sɑ̃gɔr]
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(Biographies / Senghor, Léopold Sédar (1906 M, Senegalese, POLITICS: statesman, WRITING: writer, POLITICS: head of state) Léopold Sédar (leɔpɔl sedar). born 1906, Senegalese statesman and writer; president of Senegal (1960-80)
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of West Indies of Barbados) present 20 papers from a colloquium convened to mark the 100th birthday of Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist Leopold Sedar Senghor (1906-2001), who together with Afro-Martinican poet and politician Aime Cesaire (1913-2008) and French poet and politician Leon-Gontran Damas created and promoted the concept of Negritude, the assertion and valorization of distinctive African characteristics, values, and aesthetics.
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Andre Senghor of Senegal scored off an 80th minute penalty to level the score for Bani Yas after Sharjah forged into a 3-2 lead.
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In the 2008 edition, following in Dime's footsteps, Senegalese Ndary Lo was a co-winner of the Grand Prix Leopold Sedar Senghor for his Muraille Verte, a room-sized installation of welded rebar tree-people rooted in sand, seed pods, and dried leaves laid on top of mirror plates.
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