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Dates: during 2000-2009
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DIED. LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR, 95, first president of an independent Senegal; in Normandy, France. A poet of negritude, a celebration of blackness, Senghor persuaded French President Charles de Gaulle to grant Senegal independence in 1960. He led the republic until 1980, when he became the first African President to retire voluntarily...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Dec. 31, 2001 | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

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