Léopold Sédar Senghor, the first President of Senegal and a founding figure of the Négritude literary movement, died.
Sources: BBC News ; African Studies Centre Leiden
Death
Ceiling of Debre Birhan Selassie church, Gondar, Ethiopia. Photo: Rod Waddington, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Licence · Source
On this day: December 20 in African history
Real events, births and milestones from Africa and the diaspora.
Soumaïla Cissé, CC0, Wikimedia Commons 1949 Soumaïla Cissé, the Malian engineer and politician who ran for president and later died of COVID-19, was born.
Sources: The Conversation Afrique ; Al Jazeera
Birth
Mattythewhite, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons 1978 Geremi Njitap, the Cameroonian footballer who captained his national team and played for Real Madrid and Chelsea, was born.
Sources: Real Madrid C.F. ; Olympedia (OlyMADMen) ; SuperSport
Birth
U.S. Department of State, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons 1956 Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, who seized power in a coup and later served as President of Mauritania, was born.
Sources: Africa Confidential ; BBC News ; Voice of America
Birth