* 1959 – The Party of the African Federation is launched by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Modibo Keita.

* 1948 – Léopold Sédar Senghor founds the Senegalese Democratic Bloc.

* 1906 – Léopold Sédar Senghor, Senegalese poet and politician ( d. 2001 )

* Léopold Sedar Senghor 1945-1959 ( African )

Léopold Senghor, internationally known poet, politician, and statesman, was elected Senegal's first president in August 1960.

Léopold Senghor, the first president after independence, resigned in 1981, handing over the office of president to his Prime Minister, Abdou Diouf.

The Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport at Dakar is the hub of the sub-region.

President Léopold Senghor advocated close relations with France and negotiation and compromise as the best means of resolving international differences.

* 1960 – The poet Léopold Sédar Senghor is elected as the first President of Senegal.

* December 20 – Léopold Sédar Senghor, First president of Senegal ( b. 1906 )

* October 9 – Léopold Sédar Senghor, President of Senegal ( d. 2001 )

The poet, philosopher and first President of Senegal Léopold Sédar Senghor tried to transform Dakar into the " Sub-Saharan African Athens " ( l ’ Athènes de l ’ Afrique subsaharienne ), as his vision was for it.

The town serves as a port and is home to the Léopold Sédar Senghor International Airport.

He was elected to the French Academy, taking the seat that his friend and former President of Senegal Léopold Sédar Senghor had held.

*( 1981 ) The McNamara years at the World Bank: major policy addresses of Robert S. McNamara, 1968-1981 ; with forewords by Helmut Schmidt and Léopold Senghor.

Francophonie was then coined a second time by Léopold Sédar Senghor, founder of the Négritude movement, in the review Esprit in 1962, who assimilated it into Humanism.

The Convention which created the Agency for Cultural and Technical Co-operation ( Agence de Coopération Culturelle et Technique ) was signed on March 20, 1970 by the representatives of the 21 states and governments under the influence of African Heads of State, Léopold Sédar Senghor of Senegal, Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia, Hamani Diori of Niger and Prince Norodom Sihanouk.

Five French heads of state ( Adolphe Thiers, Raymond Poincaré, Paul Deschanel, Philippe Pétain, and Valéry Giscard d ' Estaing ), and one foreign head of state ( Léopold Sédar Senghor of Senegal ) have been members.

Léopold Sédar Senghor ( 9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001 ) was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who for two decades served as the first president of Senegal ( 1960 – 1980 ).

Léopold Sédar Senghor was born on 9 October 1906 in the city of Joal, some one hundred kilometres south of Dakar.

The prince of Sine Tukura Badiar Senghor, from whom Léopold Sédar Senghor has been reported to trace descent from, was a c. 13th century Serer noble.

The airport of Dakar was renamed Aéroport International Léopold Sédar Senghor in 1996, on his 90th birthday.

* Armand Guibert & Seghers Nimrod ( 2006 ), Léopold Sédar Senghor, Paris ( 1961 edition by Armand Guibert ).

* Sources from this article were taken from the equivalent French article: fr: Léopold Sédar Senghor.

Basile Diogoye Senghor ( pronounced: Basile Jogoy Senghor ), Sedar Senghor's father, was a businessman belonging to the bourgeois Serer tribe.

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On 21 October 1945 six Africans were elected, the Four Communes citizens chose Lamine Gueye, Senegal / Mauritania Leopold Sedar Senghor, Ivory Coast / Upper Volta Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Dahomey / Togo Sourou Migan Apithy, Soudan-Niger Fily Dabo Sissoko, and Guinea Yacine Diallo They were all re-elected to the 2nd Constituent Assembly on 2 June 1946.

Wade was sworn in for his second term on April 3 at the Leopold Sedar Senghor Stadium in Dakar, with many African leaders and about 60, 000 spectators in attendance.

* 2007-Foreign Associate Member of the Academy of Moral and Political Sciences at the Institut de France in place of the late Leopold Sedar Senghor

In Senegal, the first regime ( 1960 – 1980 ) under president Leopold Sedar Senghor had in its fleet three 600s, a short wheel base, a long wheel base and a Landaulet.

In Paris, Maga affiliated himself with the Overseas Independents, a political organization led by Leopold Sedar Senghor of Senegal.

The Serments de Strasbourg, the oldest preserved text in the French language. Leopold Sedar Senghor a prominent Francophone writer and politician.

According to fellow writer Olu Oguibe, interim Director of the Institute for African American Studies at the University of Connecticut, " Brutus was arguably Africa's greatest and most influential modern poet after Leopold Sedar Senghor and Christopher Okigbo, certainly the most widely-read, and no doubt among the world's finest poets of all time.

* Leopold Sedar Senghor, 1978

Nonetheless, he was included in the seminal volume of poetry of the Negritude movement, Leopold Senghor ’ s Anthologie de la nouvelle poesie negre et malgache of New Black and Malagasy Poetry.

The Senghor University ( Official Website ) is a private postgraduate institution that trains managers and high-level trainers in areas that are a priority for development in Francophone Africa.

The Senghor University organizes regularly seminaries to help its students and of the public specialized in the domains of its action, by collaborating with the other operators and the institutions of the Francophonie.

His later books include The Mirror at Midnight: A South African Journey ( 1990 ; new edition, 2007 ), The Unquiet Ghost: Russians Remember Stalin ( 1994 ; new edition, 2003 ), Finding the Trapdoor: Essays, Portraits, Travels ( 1997 ), which collects his personal essays and reportage, and King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa ( 1998 ; new edition, 2006 ), a history of the conquest and colonization of the Congo by Belgium's King Léopold II.

Vinogradov, Solovyev along and ESA astronaut Léopold Eyharts returned to Earth on February 19, 1998.

A classical scholar and translator, Marsh edited five anthologies of Georgian Poetry between 1912 and 1922, and he became Rupert Brooke's literary executor, editing his Collected Poems in 1918.

Also noteworthy are his Collected Poetry ( Gesammelte Gedichte ) ( 1883 ), and the novel Martin Salander ( 1886 ).

* 1994-Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Poetry Award for Collected Poems

* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Edwin Arlington Robinson: Collected Poems

* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Richard Wilbur: New and Collected Poems

* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Sylvia Plath: The Collected Poems

* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Howard Nemerov, Collected Poems

* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Frost: Collected Poems

* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Robert Hillyer: Collected Verse

* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Mark Van Doren: Collected Poems

* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Marianne Moore, Collected Poems

* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Archibald MacLeish, Collected Poems 1917-1952

* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: Wallace Stevens: Collected Poems

* Pulitzer Prize for Poetry: James Wright, Collected Poems

Ammons, whose Collected Poems 1951-1971 won a National Book Award in 1973 and whose long poem Garbage earned him another in 1993 ; Theodore Roethke and his The Waking ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1954 ); James Merrill and his epic poem of communication with the dead, The Changing Light at Sandover ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1977 ); Louise Glück for her The Wild Iris ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1993 ); W. S.

* Poetry: Twenty-three Poems ( 1931 ); Under the eyelid ( 1935 ); Reflexions ( 1947 ); Collected Poems ( 1956 ); The Rose in the Tree ( 1964 ); The Clock ( 1973 ); On a Ledge ( 1992 ).

* James Macpherson as " translator "-Fragments of Ancient Poetry Collected in the Highlands of Scotland

" Source: Robert Sward: Poetry, Review & Interview with Jack Foley ," Recorded for KPFA-FM Berkeley, CA with readings from " Heavenly Sex " & " Rosicrucian in the Basement ( 2002 ), Uncle Dog Audio, Number 1002 ( 2002 ), and The Collected Poems, 1957-2004 ( 2004 ).

* Poetry and Prose: Michael Ondaatje, The Collected Works of Billy the Kid.

He won the Irish Times Prize for Poetry in 1995 for his Collected Poems, after he returned to live in Dublin when he was elected a member of Aosdana.

His first book in 26 years, Amulet, was published by New Directions in 1967 and his Collected Poems in 1986 by the National Poetry Foundation.

Her most recent book is About Now: Collected Poems from National Poetry Foundation.

* About Now: Collected Poems ( 2007 ) National Poetry Foundation.