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    Léopold Sédar Senghor (/sɒŋˈɡɔːr/; French: [sɑ̃ɡɔʁ]; 9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who was...
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    Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport (French: Aéroport international Léopold-Sédar-Senghor, IATA: DKR, ICAO: GOOY) is an international freight...
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    Léopold Sédar Senghor Stadium, formerly the Stade de l'Amitie, is a multi-purpose stadium in Dakar, Senegal. It is currently used mostly for football...
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    The passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor, formerly known as passerelle Solférino (or pont de Solférino), is a footbridge over the River Seine in the 7th arrondissement...
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    each proclaimed independence. Léopold Sédar Senghor was elected Senegal's first president in August 1960. Pro-African, Senghor advocated a brand of African...
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  • Présence Africaine, 1960 Senghor, Léopold Sedar, The Collected Poetry, University of Virginia Press, 1998 Senghor, Léopold Sédar, Ce que je crois. Paris:...
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    Leaders". Archive.org. Omnigraphics Inc. Vaillant, Janet. "Homage to Léopold Sédar Senghor: 1906-2001" (Document). Indiana University. Vaillant, Janet (1990)...
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  • candidate in 2007 and 2012. The best-known figure of the party was Léopold Sédar Senghor, the first president of Senegal. The Socialist Party of Senegal's...
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    First Lady of Senegal from 1960 to 1980, as the wife of President Léopold Sédar Senghor following independence in 1960. Hubert was born in Mouzay, Meuse...
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    he was planning to stage a military coup to overthrow President Léopold Sédar Senghor. Of rural origin, Mamadou Dia was born in Khombole, in the Thies...
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    the culture of Senegal and, more generally, cultural diversity. Léopold Sédar Senghor called this intercultural cooperation le dialogue des cultures (the...
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    downtown Dakar. It serves as the main airport for Dakar, replacing Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport, which had become too small. It is named after...
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    date. Senegal's inaugural first lady, Colette Hubert Senghor, wife of President Léopold Sédar Senghor, was from France. The country's second first lady,...
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    downtown Dakar and immediately north of Dakar Airport (Dakar-Yoff-Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport). The town is built along the broad beach...
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    operated charter and air taxi flights. Its main base was Dakar-Yoff-Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport. On April 24, 2009, the airline suspended...
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    Near Pointe des Almadies, the north-western tip of the cape, lies Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport, which was used as a transatlantic ferrying...
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  • knowledge of English literature, but without even having heard of Léopold Sédar Senghor or Aimé Césaire", so Black Orpheus became a platform for Francophone...
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    congress with Modibo Keïta named the president of the meeting and Léopold Sédar Senghor of Senegal being the key leader on many issues, including developing...
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  • Press. p. 48. Letters of George Sand, Vol 3 Beier, Ulli (2002). "Léopold Sédar Senghor: A Personal Memoir". Research in African Literatures. 33 (4): 3–11...
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  • Joans, Bob Kaufman, Krista Franklin, Aimé Césaire, Suzanne Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, René Ménil, Kool Keith, Terence Nance, Will Alexander, Kara Walker...
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    Valéry Giscard d'Estaing - and one foreign head of state, the poet Léopold Sédar Senghor of Senegal, who was also the first African elected, in 1983. Other...
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  • century. In 1951 Jahn met the Senegalese poet and future President Léopold Sédar Senghor in Frankfurt on Main. After that he devoted himself to the collection...
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    Eugénie Tell. In 1946 one of their daughters, Ginette, married Léopold Sédar Senghor, the poet and future president of independent Senegal. In 1922,...
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    concept of négritude about feeling black, expressed among others by Léopold Sédar Senghor. It has since gained in popularity and has primarily been used to...
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  • Arc en Ciel Airlines in 2020. Based in Senegal, at Dakar Yoff's Léopold-Sédar-Senghor airport, the company mainly offers charter flights and medical evacuation...
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  • Aériennes), was an airline with its head office on the property of Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport in Dakar, Senegal. It operated a scheduled...
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    Stade Léopold Sédar Senghor, Dakar, Senegal  Namibia 1-0 4-0 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification 2 2-0 3 3-0 4 24 March 2001 Stade Léopold Sédar Senghor, Dakar...
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    taking the seat that his friend and former president of Senegal Léopold Sédar Senghor had held. He died at the age of 94, and is the longest-lived French...
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    (Gold Coast, now Ghana), Julius Nyerere (Tanganyika, now Tanzania), Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal), Nnamdi Azikiwe (Nigeria), Patrice Lumumba (DRC) and Félix...
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  • of Senegal. It was adopted in 1960. The lyrics were written by Léopold Sédar Senghor, who became Senegal's first president. The music is composed by...
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