Lamine Senghor

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Lamine Senghor at the international congress against colonial oppression and imperialism, Brussels 1927.

Lamine Senghor (born September 15, 1889 in Joal , Senegal, † November 25, 1927 in Fréjus , France) was a Senegalese politician and revolutionary.

Life

In 1914 Senghor was drafted into the Tirailleurs sénégalais and sent to the front for the First World War , where he fought for the French side until 1918. After the war he stayed in France and took an active part in the struggles of his colonized compatriots for independence. He became a member of the French Communist Party (PCF).

In May 1925 he ran for the PCF in the XIII. Paris district, but was not elected to the district council. In 1925 he wanted to go to the colony in AOF, but decided not to travel and founded the Comité de Défense de la Race Nègre (CDRN) together with Joseph Gothon-Lunion in March 1926 . On February 27, 1927, the CDRN split up at the general assembly. That is why he founded the LDRN in May 1927. This had a new party organ; La Race Nègre . This newspaper became the most widely read newspaper in all of France and in the African colonies.

In February 1927 Senghor took part in the constitutive meeting of the League against Imperialism and for National Independence in Brussels , which was organized by Willi Munzenberg , a leader of the Communist International . Other participants were Josiah Tshangana Gumede ( ANC , South Africa ), Jawaharlal Nehru (Pan-Indian Congress, India ), Song Qingling (widow of the Chinese nationalist Sun Yat-sen ), Mohammad Hatta ( Indonesia's independence movement ), Hafiz Ramadan Bey ( Egypt ), Henri Barbusse and Albert Einstein . Senghor gave a much-noticed speech there, which he ended with the words:

"The imperialist oppression that we call colonialism and that you call imperialism is one and the same thing, comrades: it is all just capitalism!":

Lamine Senghor led some arguments with the leadership of the PCF because of their nationalist attitude and the patronizing of the colonies.

Works

  • Lamine Senghor: La Violation d´un Pays , Paris 1927.

literature

  • Amadou Lamine Sarr: Lamine Senghor (1889-1927). The other of Senegalese nationalism. Vienna 2011. ISBN 9783205785637 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on Lamine Senghor in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .
  2. ↑ Madièye Mbodj: Communication sur l'expérience de And-Jef / Parti Africain pour la Démocratie et le Socialisme ( Memento of 20 November 2008 at the Internet Archive ) contribution on the occasion of the 15th Séminaire communiste international in Brussels on May 7, 2006
personal data
SURNAME Senghor, Lamine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Senegalese politician
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH Joal , Senegal
DATE OF DEATH November 25, 1927
Place of death Fréjus , France