Leopold Senghor's birth name is Senghor, Leopold Sedar.
Irmgard Hanf has written: 'Leopold Sedar Senghor'
it's about love for one's country as described through the "black woman."
He spent the last years of his life with his wife in Verson, near the city of Caen in Normandy, where he died on 20 December 2001. His funeral was held on 29 December 2001 in Dakar.
Stade Leopold Senghor was created in 1985.
Leopold Senghor was born on October 9, 1906, in Joal-la-Portugaise, Senegal.
Leopold Senghor died on December 20, 2001, in Normandy, France of natural causes.
The poet (who was also for 20 years the President of Senegal) is lavish in his praise of a woman, a princess named Naett, to the point of extensively praising her name. The sweet, lovely, and magnificent things that he describes are the daily wonders of his native land of Senegal. Many readers have suggested that it is Africa itself that he is praising, his homeland having lost its "royal" stature to colonialism for nearly a century.
Leopold Sedar Senghor, the first President of Senegal, was a well-known poet in Africa. He was a leading figure in the Négritude movement, which sought to celebrate and promote African culture and heritage through literature and the arts. Senghor's poetry often focused on themes of African identity, culture, and unity.
Senghor worked to achieve Sénégal's independence from France, although originally he wanted the Sénégalaise to be given full French citizenship as the original French colonial plan had called for. Kwame Nkrumah led the independence movement in Ghana (from Britain). Both became the first presidents of their respective countries.
Leopold Seder Senghor
Poet, polititian, cultural theorist from Senegal.