Léopold Sédar Senghor was born in 1906, a merchant family in Joar village near Mbur. Attend middle school in Dakar. 1933 was qualified as a teacher of the University of Paris, and 1934 received a bachelor's degree in literature. From 65438 to 0935, senghor became the first African-American who was qualified to teach French in French middle schools and universities, and later became the first African to receive a doctorate in French grammar. Enlisted after the outbreak of World War II,/kloc-0 was captured by the Germans at the front in June, 940. Published in 1944. Senegal became independent in August. 1960. He was elected as the first president and served as the general secretary of the Senegalese ruling party, the Senegalese Progressive Alliance. 198 1 At the beginning of the year, senghor resigned as the president and retired to his hometown of Bobkina to concentrate on literary creation.

1934, Leon Dama of senghor and Aimee sezer of Martinique founded the magazine Black College Students in Paris, advocating "black" literature and art. 1948 edited and published Selected Poems of Blacks and Margash in French. Poems include Song of the Shadow (1945), Black Sacrifice (1948), Ethiopian Poetry (1956), Song of the Night (196 1), etc. His poems inherit the ancient cultural traditions of Africa and are full of philosophy. Most of them describe simple African customs, praise African heroes, show their love for the motherland and expose and criticize the colonial system, and call on African people to fight for national independence.

In terms of literary theory, senghor wrote a collection of essays Freedom One: Blacks and Humanism (1964), which introduced the works of black poets and representatives of "blacks" to readers all over the world, thus introducing African literature and art. In addition, there are political papers Song of the Shadow, Letter in the Rainy Season, Praying for Peace and research collection Colored People.