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Lopold Sdar Senghor was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who for two decades served as the first president of Senegal . Senghor was the first African elected as a member of the Acadmie franaise. Before independence, he founded the political party called the Senegalese Democratic Bloc. He is regarded by many as one of the most important African intellectuals of the 20th century.
Lopold Sdar Senghor was born onOctober 1906 in the city of Joal, some one hundred ten kilometres south of Dakar. Basile Diogoye Senghor , Sedar Senghors father, was a businessman belonging to the bourgeois Serer people. Gnilane Ndim Bakhou , Lopold Sdar Senghors mother, and the third wife of his father, was a Muslim of Fula origin, belonging to the Tabor tribe. She gave birth to six children, including two sons. His Serer middle name Sdar comes from the Serer language, meaning one that shall not be humiliated or the one you cannot humiliate. His surname Senghor is a combination of the Serer words Sne and gor or ghor, the etymology of which is kor in Serer language meaning male or man. Tukura Badiar Senghor, the prince of Sine and a figure from whom Lopold Sdar Senghor has been reported to trace descent, was a c. 13thcentury Serer noble.
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