Léopold Sédar Senghor

Title

Léopold Sédar Senghor

Rights

“Léopold Sédar Senghor” by Dominique Roger is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0

Birth Date

1906

Death Date

2001

Primary Sources

Senghor, L. S (1991) The collected poetry, translated and introduction by Melvin Dixon. Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia.

Senghor, L. S. (1981). Poems of a Black Orpheus, trans., William Oxley, Menard Press.

Senghor, L. S. (1964) On African Socialism, Frederick A. Praeger.

Secondary Sources

Helgesson, S. (2022). Decolonisations of Literature: Critical Practice in Africa and Brazil after 1945. Liverpool University Press.

Soyinka, Wole. (1999).The Burden of Misery, the Muse of Forgiveness. New York: Oxford University Press,

Bâ, Sylvia Washington. (2016, 1973). The Concept of Négritude in the Poetry of Léopold Sédar Senghor. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691645902/the-concept-of-negritude-in-the-poetry-of-leopold-sedar-senghor

Extra Resources

Léopold Sédar Senghor: portrait, Dec 21, 2021, TV5MONDEInfo, Accessed Nov 23 2022.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dsyq2_Ol3ZY

Podcast: Episode 6. Nov 21, 2023, Culture in Chief: Oba Ewuare and Léopold Sédar Senghor, African Roots: Tracing those who shaped Africa. Cai Nebe and Laila Johnson Salami, Hosts. Philipp Sandner - Lead Producer, Asumpta Lattus and Claus Stäcker, Executive Producers. Accessed Nov 23 2022. https://youtu.be/O-sYs32_K4k

Collection

Citation

“Léopold Sédar Senghor,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed December 27, 2024, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/52.

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