Word: senghor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...robes, and sat listening with calm dignity. Moreover, Dia was not even charged with "plotting," only with the more vague "acting against the internal security of the state." Taking the floor in his defense, Dia argued that he was not guilty. When he sent gendarmes to overthrow President Leopold Senghor and arrest pro-Senghor Deputies, Dia said, he was only trying to head off a plot against himself that stemmed from his efforts to crack Senegal's peanut monopolists. Cried Dia: "I wanted a constitutional solution, they [Senghor's men] wanted a political one." In reply, the prosecutor...
Three months ago, in a bitter end to a beautiful friendship, Poet-President Leopold Senghor of peanut-growing Senegal, on the West African coast, booted out of office his old friend, Premier Mamadou Dia, after Dia had turned on Senghor in an attempted coup. Last week, in a referendum run off while Dia languished behind the barbed wire of a military camp outside Dakar awaiting trial for treason, the 56-year-old Senghor legalized his position as Senegal's strongman...
While pro-Senghor demonstrators chanted, "A single hat on a single head," more than 1,000,000 Senegalese shuffled to the polls and handed Senghor a 99.5% oui on a new Senghor-tailored constitution. True to the slogan, the new charter scraps Senegal's two-man, President-Premier system in favor of a single, strong presidency for Senghor...
...victory was resounding proof of Senghor's support among Senegal's masses, and it is made all the more impressive by the fact that he is a Roman Catholic in a 70% Moslem land. But the outcome was also, in a sense, a painful defeat for Black Africa's most distinguished intellectual. For it had been the bespectacled Senghor who originally installed Senegal's two-headed system of divided powers after leading the country into independence 2½ years ago. Until he and Dia fell out, French-oriented Senghor* loftily ridiculed other French African nations that...
...brilliant Senghor's intellectual credentials are impressive indeed. His much-discussed poetic works include Chants d'Ombre, Ethiopiques and Nocturnes. With Martinique's Poet Aimé Cêsaire, Senghor founded the mystic philosophy of "Négritude." Senghor was the first African ever to win France's coveted agregation de grammaire academic degree, and he served with distinction as a territorial member of the postwar French National Assembly. By all accounts, he has been brooding over the political circumstances which forced him to end his 17-year friendship with Dia and take over as strongman...