| Found in | Mobilités en Afrique de l'Ouest, Bobin, Florian. Omar Blondin Diop : un artiste et militant ouest-africain en mouvement, 2022: page 121 (Omar Blondin Diop, born in Niamey of Senegalese and Malian parents, became one of the faces of political revolutionary militantism after his assassination in the prison of Gorée in 1973; expelled from France for participation in the "Mai 68" demonstrations, Blondin Diop did training for armed struggle which led him to Mali, passing through Algeria and Guinea; he theorized an 'urban theatre' in Dakar, and wrote about 1960s popular music in the United States; associated with the founding circle of the Senegalese collective Laboratoire Agit-Art in the [early] 1970s) page 123 (born in 1946 in Niamey, where his father, 'African doctor', had been assigned by the colonial administration as an 'anti-French element') pages 124-125 (in Paris since his adolescence; atttended Faculté de Nanterre; participated in student protests) page 126 (member of the Association des étudiants sénégalais de France (AESF)) page 127 (returned to Dakar summer 1969; explored various leftist philosophies; returned to France in autumn 1970 when his expulsion order was lifted) p. 128 (after the imprisonment of two of his brothers in a plot against Senghor, he left with friends, trained for 2 months in Syria, then in Algiers, where the Black Panther Party had opened an international office) pages 129-131 (tried to approach Senegal via Guinea, sent back toward Algiers, escaped from the plane in Bamako; while there, tried to plan kidnapping of French ambassador in Dakar; arrested in December ahead of official visit to Mali by Senghor; after 3 months, sent to Gorée prison; lost consciousness 11 May 1973, transfer to hospital not permitted; his death was announced a week later, which resulted in youth protests; it was stated that he had hung himself; the first public commemoration of his death was in 2013) page 135 (played role of 'camarade X", a young black Marxist-Leninist, in Godard's "La Chinoise" in 1967)
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