A CRITICAL REVIEW OF CHAPTERS 4&6 AND PAGES 126-135 OF THE BOOK: A HISTORY OF AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY BY B. ABANUKA
CHAPTER 4
LEOPOLD SEDAR SENGHOR: NEGRITUDE
leopold sedar senghor, son of Basile Diogo Senghor and Gnilane Bakhoum was born on 9th October, 1906 in Joel, Senegal. He spent his childhood in Djilor, Senegal with his maternal family. After his education in Ngazobil near Dakar and Liebermann College in Dakar, he obtained a grant to continue his studies in France.
In France, he was admitted to the Louis-le-Grand college where he met George Pompidou. In 1932, Leon Damas, Aime Cesaire and Senghor developed Negritude and in 1934, founded the Black Student newspaper to defend their values. Senghor was the first black student to receive an aggregation in grammar and became a professor in Tours and later in Saint-Maur-des-Fortes, France. Up until the First World War, he wrote man poems.
He was convinced b Lamine Guee, the Senegalese deputy at the French parliament, and Senghor was elected to represent the second constituency, that of the peasant class. He married Ginette Eboue, the daughter of the governor general of AOF (the French African Colonies).
