Léopold Sédar Senghor, the first President of Senegal and a founding figure of the Négritude literary movement, died.
DeathOn this day — December 20 in African history
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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.
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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.
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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.
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