The Presses Universitaires de France and FrÃ©meaux & AssociÃ©s offer this biography of LÃ©opold SÃ©dar 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.

Tracklist:

Penseur du socialisme africain
Petite enfnace
Khgneaux des colonies
Prise de conscience politique
Dualisme de Senghor
Malentendu avec Sartre
"Pont sur l'Abime"
Dans la guerre
Ses amis les Pompidou
Senghor dans l'Union franÃ§aise
Afrique communaliste
Temps des alliances
Voies de l'universel
Dakar 1966: Le Festival mondial des arts nÃ¨gres
Senghor et l'opposition: contestations socials, censure et partu unique
Savoir quitter le pouvoir

UPC: 3561302557625
Label: Fremeaux & Assoc. Fr
Release Date: 10.7.22
Format: CD

Bertho / Bertho - Leopold Sedar Senghor (3pk) (CD)