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The Senegalese democratic revolution

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Senegal has always been French’s demonstration of colonial success in West Africa. During the First World War, the French in 1917 made the Senegalese Blaize Diagne a member of the French Republic’s cabinet in charge of recruitment of troops from the French Colonial Empire particularly in Africa. This would have been inconceivable to British authorities.

The father of independent Senegal, Leopold Sedar Senghor had served in the French post Second World War government that he was given the assignment of writing in prose the Fifth Republican constitution. He was so good with the French language that he was honoured with elevation to the French Academy, the first African to be made a member of the L’Academie Francaise.

The present politics of Senegal illustrates the sharp turn from those unabashedly subservient to France and those who feel they have to break free from the past.

 

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