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Lion Noir is the name of a popular French brand of black shoe polish. Black Lion is also the self-given nickname of the second tallest, darkest-skinned member of the French Chamber of Deputies-Negro Galandou Diouf, 64, Deputy for Senegal, one of the four colored and one of the most colorful men in the French Government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lion of Senegal | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

...Galandou Diouf claims that he is the only legal representative of 19,000,000 French West African Negroes. Exceedingly well informed on colonial matters, he wants protectorate rights, on a par with Morocco or Algeria, for all French colonies. He would like to be the first colonial Senator and, eventually, Minister of Colonies. Last week he was in trouble -along with a retired colonial bureaucrat named Pierre Francois Tallerie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Lion of Senegal | 4/1/1940 | See Source »

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