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  1. #BassirouDiomayeFaye I'm curious how succesful the approach to "replace French as [#Senegal]'s official language" is this time – when parliamentary debates are still being held in #Wolof but logged in French. When kids are still instructed with a foreign language from elementary school days on.

    #Senghor or #Wade also came up with ideas and dropped them upon sight on power.

    aljazeera.com/features/2025/2/

  2. theconversation.com/leopold-se
    Une #biographie de Léopold Sédar #Senghor, héraut de la #francophonie et chantre de la #négritude

    #senegal
    Sa vie durant, l’écrivain et poète, père de la négritude, fut un militant passionné de 

    la francophonie

    Celui qui fut le premier président de la République du Sénégal a œuvré pour sa traduction politique à travers une organisation intergouvernementale.

  3. A radical vision of prehistory, which Geroulanos charts, emerged in the unlikely world of Roman Catholicism.
    It was crafted by the French Jesuit priest ⭐️Pierre Teilhard de Chardin⭐️who spent the 1920s and 1930s digging in Zhoukoudian, China, where paleontologists believed they had discovered the bones of the first humanlike hominid (known at the time as the “Peking Man” and now cataloged as Homo erectus).

    In a stream of idiosyncratic texts, Teilhard claimed that all matters, both physical and spiritual, were equal parts of God’s cosmic unity.
    No element or creature was superior to another: Humans, fish, and clouds were linked in one destiny.

    In Teilhard’s telling, this meant that humanity’s emergence in prehistoric times (against the church’s formal position, he accepted evolution theory) was but a passing stage in the world’s broader progression.
    Rather than being God’s chosen species, who could mindlessly plunder the globe’s resources,
    humans had to put their unique ability to think and speak in the service of their surroundings.

    Teilhard optimistically prophesied that humanity would ultimately be superseded when all existence would converge in what he called “the Omega point.”
    At that stage, all creatures would achieve a mystical unity with God and overcome their limitations.

    All of this is abstract and fantastical, but Teilhard’s ideas resonated with readers who hoped to create a more just and equal world.
    Many thinkers, politicians, and activists found in his narratives of humanity’s genesis a way to imagine new solidarities (and they subverted the Vatican’s ban on his works by printing and circulating them privately).
    As historian Sarah Shortall has recently shown, the most important of those was 🔸Léopold Sédar Senghor, 🔸the anti-colonial and anti-racist poet who rose to become Senegal’s first elected president.
    Senghor, who was also a devout Catholic, claimed that Teilhard’s work offered a new horizon beyond racism and exploitation.
    It explained how humanity’s deep past could lead it toward “a new humanism,” in which “all races” and “all nations” lived as equals.
    More recently, with the onslaught of climate change, environmentalists have drawn on Teilhard to articulate a vision of a sustainable future.
    For them, his narration of humanity’s origins explains what we owe the world around us.
    Rather than a separate species, we can understand ourselves as equal members in a vast and diverse biosphere.
    #Teilhard #OmegaPoint #Senghor
    newrepublic.com/article/181262

  4. A radical vision of prehistory, which Geroulanos charts, emerged in the unlikely world of Roman Catholicism.
    It was crafted by the French Jesuit priest ⭐️Pierre Teilhard de Chardin⭐️who spent the 1920s and 1930s digging in Zhoukoudian, China, where paleontologists believed they had discovered the bones of the first humanlike hominid (known at the time as the “Peking Man” and now cataloged as Homo erectus).

    In a stream of idiosyncratic texts, Teilhard claimed that all matters, both physical and spiritual, were equal parts of God’s cosmic unity.
    No element or creature was superior to another: Humans, fish, and clouds were linked in one destiny.

    In Teilhard’s telling, this meant that humanity’s emergence in prehistoric times (against the church’s formal position, he accepted evolution theory) was but a passing stage in the world’s broader progression.
    Rather than being God’s chosen species, who could mindlessly plunder the globe’s resources,
    humans had to put their unique ability to think and speak in the service of their surroundings.

    Teilhard optimistically prophesied that humanity would ultimately be superseded when all existence would converge in what he called “the Omega point.”
    At that stage, all creatures would achieve a mystical unity with God and overcome their limitations.

    All of this is abstract and fantastical, but Teilhard’s ideas resonated with readers who hoped to create a more just and equal world.
    Many thinkers, politicians, and activists found in his narratives of humanity’s genesis a way to imagine new solidarities (and they subverted the Vatican’s ban on his works by printing and circulating them privately).
    As historian Sarah Shortall has recently shown, the most important of those was 🔸Léopold Sédar Senghor, 🔸the anti-colonial and anti-racist poet who rose to become Senegal’s first elected president.
    Senghor, who was also a devout Catholic, claimed that Teilhard’s work offered a new horizon beyond racism and exploitation.
    It explained how humanity’s deep past could lead it toward “a new humanism,” in which “all races” and “all nations” lived as equals.
    More recently, with the onslaught of climate change, environmentalists have drawn on Teilhard to articulate a vision of a sustainable future.
    For them, his narration of humanity’s origins explains what we owe the world around us.
    Rather than a separate species, we can understand ourselves as equal members in a vast and diverse biosphere.
    #Teilhard #OmegaPoint #Senghor
    newrepublic.com/article/181262

  5. jeuneafrique.com/1564272/polit
    Les négociations ont duré près de deux semaines. Elles ont finalement abouti, lundi 29 avril, à « un accord financier entre l’État sénégalais et l’héritière de Léopold Sédar #Senghor sur le rachat de la totalité de la bibliothèque », a affirmé à Jeune Afrique Me Jean Rivola, commissaire-priseur de la maison des ventes Caen Enchères.
    #Senegal
    (Je ne peux pas lire l'article en entier mais l'info est là)

  6. archimag.com/bibliotheque-edit
    La vente aux enchères de la bibliothèque de 343 ouvrages, dédicacés par leur auteur, ayant appartenu à L S #Senghor n'aura pas lieu. Sans l'intervention du nouveau président du #Sénégal Bassirou Diomaye Faye elle aurait dû se tenir ce mardi 16 avril à Caen. “La vente a été suspendue parce que l’État sénégalais souhaite engager des négociations avec notre hôtel des ventes et avec l’héritier pour acheter l’ensemble de la bibliothèque” a déclaré J Rivola, commissaire-priseur

  7. actualitte.com/article/116725/
    L'événement à l'Hôtel des ventes de Caen n'aura finalement pas lieu, après l'intervention de l'État du #Sénégal auprès des organisateurs, ce lundi 15 avril, a révélé l'AFP. « La vente a été suspendue parce que l’État sénégalais souhaite engager des négociations avec notre hôtel des ventes et avec l’héritier pour acheter l’ensemble de la bibliothèque » de L Sedar #Senghor, a précisé Me Jean Rivola, commissaire-priseur chargé de la vente.

  8. actualitte.com/article/116641/
    À Caen, les 15 et 16 avril prochain, la #bibliothèque de l'écrivain et homme politique Léopold Sédar #Senghor (1906-2001) sera dispersée aux enchères, en plus de 300 lots. Une somme, et quelques ouvrages d'exception, qu'un groupe de chercheurs souhaite les voir revenir au #Sénégal

  9. From #preserving #Africa's #cultural #heritage to the era of #Artificial #Intelligence
    In 2017, the special issue of the #British #magazine The #Economist #announced on the cover that the most valuable resource was now data. This echoed the phrase “data is the new oil”, formulated in 2006 by data scientist Clive Humby.

    In 2018 James Bridle clarified that data is not the new oil but the new nuclear energy in that it is unlimited and in its capacity to cause harm (1) .

    In fact, since the 1960s, the following terms have come and gone at a rapid pace: data base, datawarehouse, databank, datamining, datamart, data store, big data, data lake, dataset, all #Anglo-Saxon sounding terms with sometimes more or less successful attempts at translations into other languages.

    But since the dawn of time, data has been the basis of #communication and the transmission of #knowledge between #humans, which evolved in four stages, oral, written, printed and digital.

    Africa?

    The African enjoys less of the advantages of being connected to the rest of the world than he suffers the #disadvantages. On a #cultural level, today's young African is likely to know more about the #British #Empire than about the Empire of #Ghana. He is more likely to have heard of #Napoleon #Bonaparte than of #Sundiata #Keita, the founding king of the great empire of #Mali. He will certainly have heard of #Elon #Musk as the richest man on the planet, but not of Mansa Musa, king of Mali in 1312 and probably the richest man who ever lived. And if he heard of #Léopold #Cedar #Senghor or #Félix #Houphouët-Boigny it will surely be thanks to the #Western #Media Through their prism.

    French leaders.com.tn/article/35714-m

    English www-leaders-com-tn.translate.g

    #Algeria #Egypt #Ethiopia #Guinea #Liberia #Morocco #Senegal #Togo #Tunisia #Zambia #Angola #Benin #Botswana #BurkinaFaso #Burundi #Cameroon #CaboVerde #CentralAfrican #Chad #Comoros #Coted’Ivoire #Congo #Djibouti #EquatorialGuinea #Eritrea #Eswatini #Gabon #Gambia #Ghana #Kenya #Lesotho #Libya #Madagascar #Malawi #Mali #Mauritania #Mauritius #Mozambique #Namibia #Niger #Nigeria #Congo #Rwanda #Sao #TomeandPrincipe #Seychelles #SierraLeone #SouthAfrica #SouthSudan #Sudan #Tanzania #Uganda #Zimbabwe

  10. /2 #Doku: #Geschichte der Entkolonialisierung (2/3)

    (2) Die indigene Internationale

    Auf dem ersten Kongress gegen koloniale Unterdrückung und #Imperialismus in Brüssel 1927 hält Lamine #Senghor eine vielbeachtete Rede zum bevorstehenden Kampf der "schwarzen Rasse"

    📽️ (~1929-1959) yt.artemislena.eu/watch?v=dGqy

    arte.tv/de/videos/086124-002-A

  11. /2 #Doku: #Geschichte der Entkolonialisierung (2/3)

    (2) Die indigene Internationale

    Auf dem ersten Kongress gegen koloniale Unterdrückung und #Imperialismus in Brüssel 1927 hält Lamine #Senghor eine vielbeachtete Rede zum bevorstehenden Kampf der "schwarzen Rasse"

    📽️ (~1929-1959) invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=

    arte.tv/de/videos/086124-002-A

  12. ✒️🎨 #Exposition / Arts africains

    ✅ Très belle expo « #Senghor et les arts - Réinventer l’universel » au Musée du Quai Branly, avec lecture de poèmes et poèmes illustrés par Chagall, André Masson, Alfred Manessier, Zao Wou-Ki… Un détour nécessaire !

    👉 m.quaibranly.fr/fr/expositions

  13. Léopold Sédar #Senghor, humaniste et universel — Poète puis homme d'État, il laisse derrière lui un riche héritage, vaste métissage culturel rendu possible par un enrichissement mutuel des civilisations, dont les rapports seraient enfin égalitaires radiofrance.fr/franceculture/p v/ @franceculture