Word: senghor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their search for an African identity, the continent's contemporary poets-many of them leading politicians-today have forsaken their mission-school Golden Treasury to rediscover the pagan rhymes and rhythms that enlivened tribal life long before the white man came. Says Léopold Sédar Senghor, who is black Africa's most distinguished poet as well as President of Senegal: "Poetry must find its way back to its origins...
...last week were pals. Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba loathes Ghana's power-seeking Kwame Nkrumah who is jealous of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser who despises the Ivory Coast's Felix Houphouet-Boigny who in turn is contemptuous of Senegal's Poet-President Leopold Senghor...
...Africa's successful revolutionaries and moderate nation builders. Ghana's egocentric Osagyefo (Redeemer), Kwame Nkrumah, was due in from Accra. From the Congo would come the embattled Premier Cyrille Adoula. Also on the list: Nigeria's able Prime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa; Senegal's Senghor; Guinea's Sekou Toure; and dozens more, including, of course, that affable fellow from up north, Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, who was an African of a kind...
...bizarre charm") before being expelled for refusing to unhand another boy's note in class (he swallowed it). Louis-le-grand produced Bankers Henri and Alphonse de Rothschild; Sweden's King Oscar II, France's President (1913-20) Raymond Poincaré, Senegal President Léopold Senghor. Premier Georges Pompidou went there, and so did at least
...North America were doing likewise. More recently, Negro intellectuals in South America, the Caribbean, and Africa have formulated the idea of a community of interest and experience (and even behavior) among Negro peoples. The poem Negritude by the French West Indian, Aime Cesaire, underscores this, as do many of Senghor's poems, like New York City (Hariem), or To American Negro Troops...