Word: senghor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...budding governments have composed their own. Senegal's anthem ("The red Lion has roared/The Tamer of the Bush has jumped forward") was written by Poet-President Leopold Senghor, Jamaica's by the Minister of Industry, the Ivory Coast's by its Information Minister. Malaysia expropriated an Indonesian love song called Moonlight, changed the words, then banned the original version. Kenya's solution was to graft the hymnlike words of one proposed anthem ("O God of all creation/Bless this our land and nation") onto the music of a Pokomo tribal lullaby...
...voted to boycott the September meeting of African chiefs of state because it is to be held in Ghana. They will also stay away from this month's important Afro-Asian summit meeting in Algiers. "We consider Afro-Asianism a little passe," Senegal's respected President Leopold Senghor declared. Added President Philibert Tsiranana of the Malagasy Republic: "Especially if it means Chinese subversion in our countries...
...travelled 400 miles north to the golden city of Johannesburg, where he went to work for a major South African paper, the Post, and its sister publication, Drum. In addition to his work there, Nakasa founded a literary quarterly, Crisis (with contributors ranging from Doris Lessing to Leopold Senghor), and started a weekly column for a prestigious white paper, the Rand Daily Mail, the first such column by an African...
...strain is, of course, too great. Last year Senegalese Poet-President Leopold Sedar Senghor-once the prince of Paris' black boulevardiers-was obliged to tell the nation that Senegal could unfortunately no longer afford to pay civil servants housing and winter-clothing allowances or finance vacation trips to France. But Senghor has never implemented his decree, and the ridiculous subsidies remain. And he did not even dare suggest a cut in basic pay, for fear of another upheaval like the one he put down 15 months ago, when a coup was led by his old friend, Premier Mahmadou...
...rainbow of April And the ears, above all the ears, to God who out of the laugh of a saxophone created the heaven and the earth in six days. And the seventh day he slept the great sleep of the Negro. - Léopold Sédar Senghor (Senegal...