Leopold Sedar Senghor, 95, the first president of Senegal and a poet and writer of international note, died Dec. 20 in Normandy, France. He had a heart ailment. Since retiring from the presidency ...

Léopold Sédar Senghor is considered as one of Africa's greatest statesmen, poets and intellectuals. After a spell of imprisonment during the Second World War, he became the first president of ...

Senghor and his French-born wife, Colette Hubert, moved to France after he stepped down as president at the end of 1980. They spent the remainder of their lives at her family home in Verson, near ...

But Senghor was a poet first and foremost. Léopold Sédar Senghor once famously declared that if he had to choose between his accomplishments as a poet, a thinker or a statesman, he would like ...

Colette Senghor, the wife of Leopold Sedar Senghor, a poet and philosopher who became the first president of post-colonial Senegal, has died in France at age 93. She died in Verson, in the western ...

Dakar - Leopold Sedar Senghor, the first president of independent Senegal who died in France last week aged 95, is to be buried in Dakar this week in a private ceremony, officials said on Saturday.

This remained the norm even after rewriting its constitution in 1963 and giving almost exclusive power to its first president, Léopold Sédar Senghor, over international affairs. In a paper ...

It was in April 1979 that Leopold Sedar Senghor, president of the Republic of Senegal, visited Korea at the invitation of President Park Chung-hee. To commemorate his state visit, the Ministry of ...