Léopold Sédar Senghor

Known for: Actor
Date of birth: 1906. October 9.
Place of birth: Joal-la-Portugaise, Senegal

Léopold Sédar Senghor (9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese poet, politician and cultural theorist who was the first president of Senegal (1960–80). Ideologically an African socialist, he was the major theoretician of Négritude. Senghor was a proponent of African culture, blac...