- 1960-1980, first President of Senegal
- 1935, first Black sub saharan person to acquire aggregation (licence) to
- teach grammar and becomes a teacher
- First African to sit on the Academie Française
- He deepens the concept of negritude
- Born October 9th , 1906 in Joal, Senegal, and died December 20th, 2001 in Verson, France