Léopold Sédar Senghor and the Politics of Negritude

Markovitz, Irving Leonard, Léopold Sédar Senghor and the politics of Negritude, New York: Atheneum, 1969.

Reviewed in ASA Review of Books © 1976.

Contents:

I. Léopold Senghor and the Functions of Ideology for Developing Nations
II. The Changing Social Functions of Negritude as an Ideology: 1931 – 1966
III. France and Senegal: The Appeal of Colonialism for Dependent Countries
IV. Autonomy, Nationalism and Independence
V. The Definition of Senegalese Socialism
VI. Development and Socialism
VII. Democracy and Economic Development
VIII. Technicity and the New Humanism