| LC control no. | no2018168302 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Diop, Alioune, 1910-1980 |
| Associated country | Senegal France |
| Birth date | 1910-01-10 |
| Death date | 1980-05-02 |
| Place of birth | Saint-Louis (Senegal) |
| Place of death | Paris (France) |
| Field of activity | Negritude (Literary movement) |
| Affiliation | Société Africaine de culture |
| Profession or occupation | Intellectuals Publishers and publishing Editors Authors Teachers |
| Found in | Alioune Diop, 1995: p. 35 (b. Jan. 10, 1910) Alioune Diop, le bâtisseur inconnu du monde noir, c1995: p. 35 (b. Jan. 10, 1910) p. 87 (d. May 2, 1980) Alioune Diop: le Socrate noir, 2010: page 23 (born 10 January 1910 in Saint-Louis, Senegal) page 34 (passed baccalaureat exam in 1931) page 47 (obtained licence (diploma) in September 1937, permitting him to study in Paris) page 107 (converted to Catholicism in December 1944, given the name Jean [very rarely used]) page 137 (founded the journal Présence Africaine, first issue published in November 1947) caption to first illustration (elected senator to the IVe République in 1946, at age 36; was director of the office of the governor general of AOF in Dakar) page 377 (died at Paris hospital on May 2, 1980 of a cerebral hemorrhage) Wikipedia, December 7, 2018 (Alioune Diop; Senegalese writer, founder of the intellectual journal Présence Africaine, and a central figure in the Négritude movement; founded the Société Africaine de Culture in 1956, and the same year was principal organizer of the first international Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Paris; in 1966, with Léopold Sédar Senghor, he organized the first World Festival of Negro Arts (Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres, FESMAN) in Dakar) |
| Associated language | fre |
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