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Senegal

Léopold Sédar Senghor

Date of Birth: 9 October 1906
Place of Birth: Joal, French West Africa (Senegal)
Died: 20 December 2001


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Passion for change

5 per cent as the anointed successor of founding president Léopold Sédar Senghor...


Savimbi's splitters

Sangumba linked Savimbi to foreign business people such as Britain's late Roland 'Tiny' Rowland (who used to lend a private jet to Savimbi) and to African presidents such as Léopold Senghor and Houphouët-Boigny...


Pre-millenial tension

One speculation is that if Ka could take over from Wade as the opposition candidate who stands and loses against Diouf in 2000 Diouf could show his gratitude a couple of years later by passing the baton to the opposition's candidate - just as his mentor Léopold Sédar Senghor resigned the presidency in his favour in 1981...


Rules of the game

This alliance was forged under President Léopold Sédar Senghor and fostered by his protege Diouf who took over in 1981...


Deft Diouf

Collin was feared and respected because his years as Léopold Senghor's Interior Minister gave him knowledge of the security files of all leading politicians...


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