Monday 9 October 2017

111th birthday of Léopold Sédar Senghor

(Born 9 October 1906, Joal, Sénégal)
ONE OF THE most outstanding poets of the African World, academic, and race and cultural theorist, statesperson, first African president of Sénégal, September 1960, following the termination of 300 years of the French conquest, occupation and immisiration
(John Coltrane SextetDakar [personnel: Coltrane, tenor saxophone, Cecil Payne, baritone saxophone; Pepper Adams, baritone saxophone; Mal Waldron, piano;  Doug Watkins, bass; Art Taylor, drums; recorded: Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, US, 20 April 1957])
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