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1906 – 2001Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906-2001)Died 20 December 2001, aged 95Senghor was a poet and the first president of independent Senegal, governing from 1960 to 1980, when he voluntarily stepped down. A leading theorist of Négritude, he was the first African elected to the Académie française. His verse and essays shaped francophone African literature.