num_pages: 312
description: President of Senegal. . .as much European as African, as much poet as politician, a rationalist and an irrationalist, a revolutionary and a traditionalist; his life was devoted to the creation of a new Africa in accord with traditional civilization and the requirements of the twentieth century, and this search for a radical African philosophy, involving the discovery of a new black consciousness, again paradoxically derived from his early involvement in the European intellectual and cultural tradition.
language: English
title: Léopold Sédar Senghor: An intellectual biography
titlecomplete: Léopold Sédar Senghor: An intellectual biography
ratings_count: 1
publisher: Edinburgh University Press