Bandung Conference
During colonial rule both Léopold Sédar Senghor and Mohammad Hatta participated in the February 1927 Congress against Colonial Oppression and Imperialism, held in Brussels. This conference has been described as the 'intellectual father' of the Bandung Conference. Senghor would later describe the 1955 Bandung Conference was 'the most important event since the Renaissance'. Indonesian President Sukarno paid an official visit to Senegal (then still not independent) in 1959.