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Léopold Sédar Senghor
Léopold Sédar Senghor was a Senegalese poet, philosopher and statesman, the first president of Senegal from 1960 to 1980. A founder of the Négritude movement with Aimé Césaire, he sat in the French National Assembly from 1945 and led Senegal to independence, briefly within the Mali Federation. In 1983 he became the first African elected to the Académie française.
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