Dec 29, 2009
Black, French, and African | Black, French, and African
At a glance:
- Author: Janet G. Vaillant
- First Published: 1990
- Type of Work: Historical biography
- Time of Work: Primarily 1906-1988
- Setting: Senegal, and France
- Principal Characters: Leopold Sedar Sengeor, Aime Cesaire, Charles Degaulle, Mamadou Dia, Blaise Diagne, Lamine Gueye, Basile Diogoye Senghor, Helene Senghor
- Genres: Nonfiction, History, Biography
- Subjects: Africa or Africans, Politics, Socialism, Colonialism, France or French people, Religion, Ethnic relations, Economics, Nationalism, Identity, Catholics or Catholic Church, Industrialization
- Locales: France, Senegal
A people’s search for ethnic identification and solidarity, especially under conditions of
colonial domination, is fraught with complexities, inconsistencies, and frustrations. And as Janet G.
Vaillant cogently describes in Black, French, and African: A Life of Leopold Sedar Senghor,
no one’s personal life experience has embodied this search any better than that of Leopold
Senglior. This historical biography of one of Africa’s best-known leaders is driven by the
following idea: that Senghor’s struggle to come to terms with his ethnic identity was shaped
by, and eventually...
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