Omar Blondin Diop’s revolution in Senegal
In 1973, Senegalese activist and artist Omar Blondin Diop died in a Senegalese prison. His life helps reveal what revolutionary politics look like in a neocolonial state.
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Florian Bobin
Florian Bobin is a student in African history and host of Elimu Podcast. His research focuses on post-colonial liberation struggles from the 1960s and 1970s in Senegal.
The Senghor myth
Once you've exhausted all the Negritude quotes, you have to confront the fact that Leopold Sedar Senghor ran Senegal as a repressive, one-party state.