Word: senghor
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...opold-Sédar Senghor, 52, the grand old man of Senegalese politics, widely regarded as Africa's foremost intellectual. An opinionated and brilliant man, the son of wealthy Catholic parents, Senghor started his career as a teacher in the Parisian Lycée Louis-le-Grand, which traditionally gets the cream of Sorbonne graduates for its faculty. He fought with the French as an infantryman in World War II, joined the Resistance, became a literary lion in Paris after publication of his poems, Chantes d'Ombre. His second wife is a Frenchwoman. As one of the architects...
...push and pull that has taken place in Africa since France's territories voted on the De Gaulle constitution, the federation was an answer to the fear of West African leaders such as Senegal's Leopold Senghor that the newly autonomous states within the French Community might become "Balkanized" and one by one fall prey to the ambitious new rulers of Guinea and Ghana...
...French political marriages were breaking up. At the town hall of Asnières, a Paris suburb, Léopold Senghor, deputy from French West Africa, and Mlle. Ginette Eboué solemnized another kind of Gaullist Union (see cut). Mlle. Eboué is the daughter of the first African to espouse General de Gaulle's cause in the Lake Chad region...