“… like the marabouts, even more so than the marabouts, the missionaries were iconoclasts, destroyers of values…Leopold Senghor
Contrary to the notion of numerous African politicians, culture is not an appendage that can be lopped off without damageLeopold Senghor
There can be no freedom in the total alienation that results from colonialism; there can be no freedom if one’s original being is stifled; there can be no independence in dependence.Leopold Senghor
Illness, ignorance, poverty – such is our lot, such the condition from which we must rescue our peopleLeopold Senghor
Where the European woman complains of being doubly oppressed, the Black woman of Africa suffers a threefold oppression…Awa Thiam
Every woman is, or ought to be, concerned about sexual mutilation practised on the body of another, whoever she may beAwa Thiam
