Dr alioune diop biography
Dr alioune diop biography
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Alioune Diop
Senegalese writer and editor (1910-1980)
Alioune Diop | |
|---|---|
| Born | 10 January 1910 Saint-Louis, French West Africa (now Senegal) |
| Died | May 2, 1980(1980-05-02) (aged 70) Paris, France |
| Nationality | Senegalese |
| Occupation(s) | Writer and editor |
Alioune Diop (10 January 1910 – 2 May 1980) was a Senegalese writer and editor, founder of the intellectual journal Présence africaine, and a central figure in the Négritude movement.[1]
Early life
Born a Muslim in Saint-Louis, Senegal, French West Africa, Diop attended a koranic school but his aunts also taught him to read the Bible.[1] As an adult, Alioune Diop converted to Christianity[2] and received his Catholic baptism from Dominican Father Jean-Augustin Maydieu on Christmas night of 1944 in Saint-Flour in Cantal (France) under the name of Jean.[3] After receiving his secondary education at the Lycée Faidherbe in Saint-Louis, Senegal, he continued