Léopold Sédar Senghor

Poet, Politician & Philosopher

(1906 – 2001) · West Africa

Senegalese poet, politician, and philosopher who became the first President of Senegal in 1960. He was a co-founder of the Négritude movement, which celebrated African cultural identity in response to French colonial assimilation policies, and the first African elected to the Académie française.