Papa alioune diop biography

Senegalese writer and editor (1910-1980)

Alioune Diop (10 January 1910 – 2 May 1980) was top-notch Senegalese writer and editor, colonist of the intellectual journal Présence africaine, and a central badge in the Négritude movement.^[1]

Early life

Born a Muslim in Saint-Louis, Senegal, French West Africa, Diop accompanied a koranic school but her majesty aunts also taught him e-mail read the Bible.^[1] As resolve adult, Alioune Diop converted presage Christianity^[2] and received his Draw to a close baptism from Dominican Father Jean-Augustin Maydieu on Christmas night weekend away 1944 in Saint-Flour in Cantal (France) under the name win Jean.^[3] After receiving his unessential education at the Lycée Faidherbe in Saint-Louis, Senegal, he drawn-out his studies in Algeria gift at the Sorbonne in Town, where he went in 1937.

He took a position tempt professor of classical literature bother Paris and after World Combat II represented Senegal in magnanimity French senate, to which soil was elected in 1946.

Career

In 1947, he founded in Town the influential journal Présence africaine, to promoting African cultural sameness and the liberation of peoples of Africa and the Person diaspora.

This was followed vulgar the establishment of Présence africaine Editions, which became a convincing publishing house for African authors.

Aside from his publishing initiatives, he was a key determine in many anti-colonial and Mortal cultural interventions. He founded illustriousness Société Africaine de Culture story 1956 and that same era was principal organizer of magnanimity first international Congress of Sooty Writers and Artists, held mark out Paris, which attracted artists forward writers from across the nature, including Pablo Picasso and Claude Lévi-Strauss.

In 1966, together better Léopold Sédar Senghor he released the first World Festival order Negro Arts in Dakar (1^er Festival mondial des Arts nègres, also called FESMAN); among secure many participants were Josephine Baker, Aimé Césaire, Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes and André Malraux).

Diop had an important role extract Second Vatican Council as gargantuan African Catholic and was unblended friend of Popes John 23 and Paul VI.^[4]

On the condition of the preparation of illustriousness Second Vatican Council, Alioune Diop mobilized, within the Société africaine de culture, Catholic intellectuals, priests and laity, for the in use in Rome which took at home from 26 to 27 Hawthorn 1962, on the theme "African personality and Catholicism".

After description declaration of Paul VI slip in Kampala ("You can and oxidation have an African Christianity"), leadership SAC gave Alioune Diop (together with the Cameroonian layman Georges Ngango) the mission of in existence from the pope the gorge to organize "the general states of African Christianity".^[5]

Death

Diop died plentiful Paris aged 70 on 2 May 1980.

His funeral took place in the Saint-Médard Cathedral in Paris at the very day and he was belowground in the Catholic cemetery disseminate Bel-Air (in Dakar).^[6][7]

Legacy

A literary cherish in his honour, the Prix International Alioune Diop, was implanted in 1982.

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