The Essential Senghor

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African Philosophy and Black Aesthetics

Léopold Sédar Senghor, Doyle D. Calhoun, Alioune Fall , Cheikh Thiam

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Duke University Press
14 April 2026

Colonialism & imperialism; Ethnic studies; Black & Asian studies; Politics & government

Senegalese poet, philosopher, and politician Léopold Sédar Senghor, together with Aimé Césaire and others, developed the influential and perennially relevant negritude movement – a Black artistic, philosophical, and political expression of Black presence in the modern colonial world. The Essential Senghor provides a new opportunity for English-language readers to engage with Senghor’s critical and philosophical writings spanning from 1937 to 1985. This collection includes Senghor’s key philosophical interventions in discourses on freedom, Blackness and being, humanism, history, and more. It portrays Senghor as a pivotal intellectual in the fields of African and Black studies whose work engages a wide range of disciplines, including literature, linguistics, anthropology, religion, and art history. The Essential Senghor invites readers not only to reflect on negritude and its importance for our political present, but also to reconsider intellectual genealogies of decolonial thought, Black liberation, and African philosophy.

By: Léopold Sédar Senghor
Edited by: Doyle D. Calhoun, Alioune Fall, Cheikh Thiam
Translated by: Doyle D. Calhoun
Imprint: Duke University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 445g
ISBN: 9781478038603
ISBN 10: 1478038608
Pages: 406
Publication Date: 14 April 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906–2001) was a poet, philosopher, and the first president of Senegal. Doyle D. Calhoun is University Assistant Professor of Francophone Postcolonial Studies at the University of Cambridge. Alioune Fall is Assistant Professor of Black Studies and French at Providence College. Cheikh Thiam is Department Chair of English and Professor of Black Studies at Amherst College.

Reviews for The Essential Senghor: African Philosophy and Black Aesthetics

""This invaluable reader makes Senghor's thought directly available to an English-language audience, offering a very good overview of his philosophy, perfectly capturing his original text, and assembling selections with precision and care. It will become a touchstone for those in African studies, philosophy, art, and beyond.""--Souleymane Bachir Diagne, author of, African Art as Philosophy: Senghor, Bergson and the Idea of Negritude