Quote of the day
If you do not accuse each other, God will not accuse you. If you have no accuser you will enter heaven. . . . What many people call sin is not sin; I do many things to break down superstition, and I will break it down.
Léopold Sédar Senghor
Born: October 9, 1906
Died: December 20, 2001 (aged 95)
Bio: Léopold Sédar Senghor was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who for two decades served as the first president of Senegal. Senghor was the first African elected as a member of the Académie française.
Known for:
- Ethiopiques (1956)
- The collected poetry (1991)
- La belle histoire de Leuk-le-Lièvre (1953)
- Négritude et humanisme (1964)