Léopold Sédar Senghor

LéopoldSédarSenghor Senegalese poet, politician, founder of Senegalese Democratic Group. Senghor was elected President of Senegal in the 1960s. He retired in 1980. He is one of the founder of the Négritude concept and is defined as a literary and artistic expression of blacks in Africa. In historical context, this term is seen as a reaction to the defense of French colonialism and African culture. It has deeply influenced the strengthening of African identity in the French-speaking black world.

Négritude is a literary and ideological philosophical philosophy developed by French African intellectuals, writers and politicians in the 1930s. Its promoters include the Martinika poet, Aime Cesar, Leopold Sedar Senghor (future Senegalese president), and French Guiana Leon Dama. Négritude intellectuals deny French colonialism and argue that the best strategy for it is to encourage the common racial identity of African indigenous peoples all over the world. Pan - Africanism is an exercise that responds to Negrit 's principle among English intellectuals who speak English. A psychiatrist, philosopher, revolutionist, and writer Frantz Omar Fanon (1925-1961), born in Martinique born African American, was one of the supporters of this movement. His work affects areas such as post colonial research, critical theory, Marxism and others.

The movement of Négritude in the 1930s was led by Paris Senegalese poet Léopold Sédar Senghor, French Guiana Léon Damas, Martinique Aimé Césaire. From their Parisian magazine L'Etudiant Noir and elsewhere, they expressed their love for the black people and opposed European cultural imperialism. Haitian Lorimer Denis and François Duvalier advertised similar ideas through the Griot campaign. French pan - Africanism has been widespread from France. In 1900, Benito Sylvain collaborated with Henry Sylvester Williams at Pan - Africa meeting in London. As Williams did for the English-speaking world, Sylvain preceded it, later Parisian Pan Africanists followed it. In 1890, Sylvain founded a journal LaFraternité (Fraternity) and founded "to defend the interests of European black species". In 1898, he founded the Black Youth Association in Paris.