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2 unusual facts about Présence africaine


Présence Africaine

The magazine published its first issue in November 1947, founded by Alioune Diop a Senegalese-born professor of Philosophy, along with a cast of African, European, and American intellectuals, writers, and social scientists, including Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Alioune Sarr, Richard Wright, Albert Camus, André Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre, Théodore Monod, Georges Balandier and Michel Leiris.

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Gravrand, Henry, "La Civilisation Sereer, vol. 1, Cosaan : les origines", Nouvelles éditions africaines, Dakar; Présence africaine, Paris, 1983, ISBN 2-7236-0877-8



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Lamine Diakhate

Together with Aimé Césaire and Alioune Diop he was one of the five members of the editorial committee of Éditions Présence Africaine in Paris.

Ulli Beier

In 1956, after visiting the First Congress of Negro Artists and Writers in Paris organized by Présence Africaine at the Sorbonne, Ulli Beier returned to Ibadan with more ideas.