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The Presses Universitaires de France and Frémeaux & Associés offer this biography of Léopold Sédar Senghor by Elara Bertho, CNRS researcher and specialist in the period of decolonization in West Africa. First African with a grammar degree, poet celebrated around the world, first president of Senegal, academician Senghor had all the honors. Accused of essentialism for having invented Negritude, of authoritarianism for having imprisoned his opponents, it is difficult today to paint a nuanced portrait of Senghor while doing justice to the great topicality of his poetic and philosophical thought. Yet it is this crest line that Elara Bertho takes, far from hagiography, far from anathemas. How can his thought of the universal and the dialogue of cultures still speak to us? How can his anti-capitalist critique of the Western world resonate with contemporary ecological struggles? Discovering Senghor, one is struck by the modernity of his thought socialism, negritude, universal, faith, are the key words of this man with a complex discourse, which one must take the time to read and understand. Album Tracks 1. Négritude et universel 2. Penseur du socialisme africain 3. Petite enfnace 4. Ses parents et le totémisme 5. Senghor à l'école des Blancs 6. Khâgneaux des colonies 7. Prise de conscience politique 8. Avec Aimé Césare, théoriser le Inchnègre nouveauInch 9. Senghor français puis agrégé 10. Ce que Négritude veut dire 11. Dualisme de Senghor 12. Malentendu avec Sartre 13. Ecriture poétique 14. InchPont sur l'AbimeInch 1. Dans la guerre 2. Ses amis les Pompidou 3. Guerre au Sénégal 4. Senghor dans l'Union française 5. Assimiler, ne pas être assimilé 6. Législation identique pour tous 7. Théoricien du socialisme africain 8. Afrique communaliste 9. Temps des alliances 10. Combat littérarie 11. Rêve d'une Fédération africaine
