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Yohann C. Ripert, Assistant Professor of French and Francophone Studies, Stetson University

How Senegal decolonised diplomacy -- starting with Kennedy and Senghor

Former Senegalise President Leopold Senghor (1974). Photo by Henri Bureau/Sygma/Corbis/VCG via Getty Images

In their fight for freedom from France, what the people of Senegal keenly understood was that securing independence would simply not be enough. True victory would be achieved by a sustainable independence.

Sixty two years later, one of the most significant markers of the victory is what I call Senegal’s “de-colonised diplomacy”.

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