The march of the world – Senghor or the culture of Independence

To the sounds of the exhibition and our sound and musical archives, our guest Mamadou Diouf, historian and professor of African studies at Columbia University in New York revisits Senghor in his time and in the time of the world.

To read :

– Senghor and the arts, Reinventing the universal

Mamadou Diouf, Sarah Frioux-Salgas, Sarah Ligner

Quai Branly Museum

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Released February 8, 2023.

– Africa N’Ko. The Colonial Library in Debate

Texts in French and English

Mamadou Diawara, Mamadou Diouf, Jean-Bernard Ouedraogo

African presence

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Released January 26, 2022.

IN IMAGES, IN PICTURES

Poster of the exhibition “Senghor and the Arts. Reinventing the universal”. From February 7 to November 19, 2023. Roméo Mivekannin, photo Guillaume Bassinet / Quai Branly museum Jacques Chirac / g6 design

The Senghor and the Arts exhibition. Reinventing the universal. quai Branly museum – Jacques Chirac / photo Léo Delafontaine

Senghor and the Arts exhibition. Reinventing the Universal, February 6, 2023. Senghor and the Arts exhibition. Reinventing the universal, photo taken on February 6, 2023. © quai Branly museum – Jacques Chirac / photo Léo Delafontaine

Senghor and the arts exhibition. Reinventing the universal. quai Branly museum – Jacques Chirac / photo Léo Delafontaine

Many thanks to Sarah Frioux-Salgas and Sarah Lignier, co-curators of the exhibition and to the entire Quai Branly team.

Special dedication to musician and composer Nicolas Repac for sharing his sound creation around the poems of Senghor, Césaire and Damas.