Since the 1940s, most of the major critics of Negritude analyze Leopold Sedar Senghor’s oeuvre through two opposing perceptions. It is either presented as a legitimate resistance against the colonial ...

PARIS — Leopold Sedar Senghor, a former president of Senegal and poet who won acclaim in Africa’s presidential palaces and France’s universities and literary salons, died at his home in Normandy on ...

In 1961, less than twelve months after the independence of both Mauritania and Senegal, I was in my last year of high school at Van Vollenhoven, the prestigious French lycée in Dakar, Senegal. I still ...