Section

Poets in the News

Poet Name

Senghor, Léopold Sédar

Given Name

Léopold Sédar

Last Name

Senghor

Date of Birth

9 October 1906

Biography

Born in 1906 in Senegal, Léopold Sédar Senghor was a poet and politician who served as the first president of Senegal following its independence in 1960. Senghor was perhaps the most famous and most influential writer of the negritude movement, and he co-founded the journal "Presence Africaine" with Alione Diop. Senghor was the first African elected as a member of the Académie française.

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Education

University of Paris

News Items

Picture Gallery

Poet among the Presidents of Africa

Poet of Senegal

Poetic Licence for Democracy

Poetry from Africa

After indignation, what?

Praise poet in Paris

President Poet

Senegal's shining beacon

Senegalese President

Senghor of Senegal Steps Down

The Lyrics of the President

University news

Ways into Africa

Winning struggle to reestablish African culture alongside the economic revolution

Writing in West Africa: A Chance to Adapt and to Experiment

A World of Riches

Africa on Record

Fatal Journey to Marseilles

The Oracle

Sch-Sho

Contributors

The White Tribes

Playgrounds

September 3, Iagwanda Camp

France and her Empire

Rhee-Rockwell

The Future of France in Africa

Last Chance" for France in Tunisia

Nkrumah: the Myth and the Man

African Writers Series reaches 100

Agisymbolic

German leftists' trial

1000 Makers of the Twentieth Century

The Sunday Times

S Africa backs secret plan to invade Angola

Marxist slams 'Africa traitors'

Explores and exploiters

The Reluctant Beneficiaries

Foreign Fields

U. S. Of Africa' is New Aim

News in the Arts

Hope at Last for Algeria

Blunt Mountbatten wins South American goodwill

Gaillard to Hold Africa Conference

. . . but 52 were not hanged

French Cause for Alarm

French Two-Step

Vorster on victory ride—back to the laager

French Africa in 2 Camps

Banning poetry to ban the bomb

Aspirations of French Africa

Black man's burden

Mountbatten goodwill mission begins today

Vorster visits black Africa in secret

Guinea

Mali Clash Starts New Crisis

France Holds on in West Africa

Out of Africa

Angola splits Africa in two

Court Circular

Negro Poetry

The French, the Negroes and the Arabs

Senegal

French Heritage

De Gaulle's Plans for Africa

Lesson in discipline

Culture and politics travel forward hand in hand

Effects of exile

Europe Looks Outwards--II: Keeping it Dark: "Negritude" in a Changing World

Focus on a medieval African civilization

Heinemann

Into the melting pot

Leading source for Negro art

Letter from... Touba

Little attention paid to youth culture

London Diary

Our Contributors

Events

Retirement of Léopold Sédar Senghor

Election of Léopold Sédar Senghor, September 1960

Léopold Sédar Senghor visits the Queen of England

World Festival of Negro Arts, 1974

Léopold Sédar Senghor conferred honorary degree at Harvard University

Conference on the medieval Manding Empire of Mali

Degree Doctor of Letters by Diploma conferred to Léopold Sédar Senghor

Death of Léopold Sédar Senghor

World Festival of Negro Arts, 1966

Works

Selected Poems

Nocturnes

Satellites

Letters to Martha and other poems

Labyrinths and Paths of Thunder

Les Élégies majeures

Selected Poems/Poesies Choisies: A Bilingual Text with English Translations

On African Socialism

Nocturnes

A History of Neo-African Literature

Long Drums and Cannons

The Collected Poetry

Poems from Black Africa

Nocturnes

Leopold Sedar Senghor

Geschichte der neoafrikanischen Literatur

Chants d'ombres

Anthologie de la nouvelle poésie nègre et malgache

La Belle Histoire de Leuk-le-Lièvre

Éthiopiques

Hosties noires

Chants d'ombre

A Selection of African Prose

Black, French and African: A life of Léopold Sédar Senghor

The Poetry of Léopold Sédar Senghor

Who's Who in Africa: the political, military and business leaders of Africa

Somali Poetry: An Introduction

Poèmes

La Poésie de l'action: conversation avec Mohamed Aziza

Close Relationships

Moi, Daniel Toroitich arap

Pogrund, Benjamin

Williams, Eric

Andrzejewski, Bogumil Witalis 'Goosh'

Péguy, Charles Pierre

Khama, Seretse Goitsebeng Maphiri

Gueye, Lamine

Dixon, Melvin

Horton, Robin

Cook, David

Sweeney, Philip

, 'Pope Paul'

Jahn, Janheinz

Esan, Yetunde

Aluko, Eniola

Nyerere, Julius

Bongo, Omar 'Albert-Bernard Bongo'

Mountbatten, Albert Victor Nicholas Louis Francis 'Earl of Burma'

Kachingwe, Aubrey

Apithy, Sourou-Migan Marcellin Joseph

Mason, Sheila

Wake, Clive

Moore, Gerald

Ransome-Kuti, Fella

Mandela, Nelson

Padmore, George

Nwoga, Donatus

Abrahams, Peter

Musa, Mansa

Davis, Arthur Paul

Eglin, Colin

Izevbaye, Dan

Mobutu, Joseph-Désiré 'Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga'

Kaunda, Kenneth

Beier, Ulli

Slade-Baker, J. B.

Banda, Hastings Kamuzu

Macmillan, Harold

Bowra, Maurice

Howe, Russell

Keita, Sundiata

Diop, Alioune

Spender, Stephen

Boumédiène, Houari

Chraïbi, Driss

Balewa, Abubakar Tafawa

Diop, Cheikh Anta

Houphouët-Boigny, Félix

Niven, Alastair

Mackenzie, S. P. M.

Alexandra Mary, Windsor 'Queen Elizabeth'

Hopkins, Gerard Manley

Caseley Hayford, Joseph Ephraim 'Ekra-Agiman'

Rodney, Walter

Azikiwe, Nnamdi

Kipphoff, Petra

Decker, Thomas Leighton

Garvey, Marcus

Connolly, Cyril Vernon 'Cyril Connolly'

Mezu, S. Okechukwu

Lewis, I. M.

Diete-Spiff, Alfred

Young, John

Massigli, Rene

Laurence, Margaret

Pieterse, Cosmo

Beti, Mongo

Equiano, Olaudah 'Gustavus Vassa'

dos Santos, Marcelino

Roumain, Jacques

Johnson, James Weldon

Coulter, Stephen

Diouf, Abdou

Whiteley, Wilfred Howell 'W. H.'

Djibo, Bakary

Salih, Tayeb

Sy, Fatima Emma

Honwana, Luis Bernardo

Jemie, Onwuchekwa

Bamba, Amadou

Herbstein, Denis

Hughes, Langston

Nwankwo, Nkem

Mandelstam, Nadezhda Yakovlevna 'Khazina'

James, Cyril Lionel Robert 'C. L. R.'

Hadgson, Godfrey

Whitman, Walt

da Silva Neto, António Agostinho 'Agostinho Neto'

Ousmane, Sembène

Mulaisho, Dominic

Lugard, Frederick John Dealtry 'Lord Lugard'

Madubuike, Ihechukwu

Fagunwa, Daniel Orowole Olorunfẹmi

Cabral, Amílcar Lopes da Costa

Lee, Ulysses Grant Jr

Diouf, Ibou

Serumaga, Robert

Wade, Abdoulaye

Ouologuem, Yambo

Knappert, Jan

Mphahlele, Ezekiel 'Es'kia'

de Gaulle, André Joseph Marie de Gaulle 'Charles de Gaulle'

Khane, Cheikh Ahmadou

Ladipo, Duro

Lyman, Andrews

Armah, Ayi Kwei

Pompidou, Georges

Mäkonnän, Täfäri 'Haile Selassie I'

Larson, Charles R.

Morgan, Susan

Arnold, Eve

Ortzen, Len

Guibert, Armand

Edwards, Paul

Amelgatcher, Adelaide

Diagne, Blaise

Odinga, Jaramogi Oginga

Perse, Saint-John

Badejo, Peter

West, Richard

Bontemps , Arna Wendell

Divine, David

Oyono, Ferdinand Léopold

Enahoro, Anthony Eromosele

Umeasiegbu, Rems

Latino, Juan 'Juan de Sessa'

Nkrumah, Kwame

Konadu, Samuel Asare 'Kwabena Asare Bediako'

Gbadamosi, Bakare

Maddy, Yulisa Amadu Pat

Asare, Bediako

Damas, Léon-Gontran

Sartre, Jean-Paul

La Guma, Alex

Roscoe, Adrian

Tall, Papa Ibra

Anthony , Rudolf

Conton, William Farquhar

wa Thiong'o, Ngugi 'James'

von Goethe, Johann Wolfgang

Gatheru, R. Mugo

Vaillant, Janet G.

Oliver, Roland

Palmer, Eustace

Munonye, John

Mboya, Thomas Joseph Odhiambo

Jenkins, Alan

Marsden, Eric

Vorster, Balthazar Johannes Vorster 'B. J. Vorster'

Diop, Majmout

Dostoevsky, Fyodor Mikhailovich

Nzekwu, Onuora

Reed, John

Farah, Nuruddin

Césaire, Aimé

Anozie, Sunday Ogbonna

Mbacké, Serigne Saliou

Dia, Mamadou

Kenyatta, Jomo

Fanon, Frantz Omar 'Ibrahim'

Nwapa, Flora

Mackay, Claude

Keïta, Modibo

Palangyo, Peter K.

Samkange, Stanlake John William Thompson

Levi, Primo Michele

Toure, Ahmed Sekou

Whiteman, Kaye

Kwei-Armah, Kwame

Amadi, Elechi

Duodu, Cameron

Mazrui, Ali Al'amin

Djoleto, Solomon Alexander Amu

Debré, Michel Jean-Pierre

Tutuola, Amos

Ekwensi, Cyprian

Dickens, Charles

Thomas, Dylan

Irele, Francis Abiola

Sellassie, Sahle

Cullen, Countee Porter

Pile, Stephen

Williams, Eric Eustace

Kofie, Vincent Akwete

Bebey, Francis

Busby, Margaret

Shepperson, George Albert 'Sam'

Maran, René

Gowon, Yakubu

Dipoko, Mbella Sonne

MacRae, Donald

Eliot, Thomas Stearns 'T. S.'

Frank MacDermot, Frank MacDermot

Terry, Antony

Lasebikan, E. L.

Abraham, Willie 'Kojo'

Corfield, Richard

Jones, Bomani Babatunde

Brown, Sterling Allen

Amin, Idi

Karibo, Minji

Liyong, Taban Lo

P'Bitek, Okot

Diop, David Mandessi

Neto, António Agostinho 'Agostinho Neto'

Craveirinha, José

Okai, Atukwei 'John'

Okara, Gabriel

Okri, Ben

Soyinka , Wole 'Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde'

Delius, Anthony 'Ronald St. Martin'

Peters, Lenrie

Lumumba, Patrice Hemery

Diop, Birago

Ibekwe, Chinweizu

Brew, Osborne Henry Kwesi

Achebe, Chinua 'Albert Chinualumogu'

U Tam'si, Tchicaya

Rabearivelo, Jean-Joseph

Paton, Alan

Aig-Imoukhuede, Frank 'Abiodun'

Opoku, A. A.

Dadié, Bernard Binlin

Faleti, Adebayo

Kunene, Mazisi 'Raymond'

Aidoo, Ama Ata 'Christina'

Rive, Richard

Brutus, Dennis Vincent

Bolamba, Antoine-Roger

Clark, John Pepper 'J. P.'

Ranaivo, Flavien

Hasan, Muhammad Abdille

Awoonor-Williams, George Kofi Nyidevu 'Kofi Awoonor'

Senghor, Léopold Sédar

Okigbo, Christopher

Place of Birth

Senegal, Joal

Spatial Coverage

Joal

Region

West Africa

Type

Poets in the News