Leopold Sedar Senghor: “Let us answer ‘Present’ at the rebirth of the world”
Leopold Sedar Senghor, the first President of independent Senegal, answered "Present" on three occasions when the rebirth of the world was necessary and possible.
Month: June 2006
Mapuches: The Politics of Exclusion in Chile
As four Mapuche activists imprisoned under draconian anti-terrorist laws spend 70 days on a hunger strike, the troubled relationship between the Chilean state and "the oldest of Chileans" is rockier than ever.
Revolutionary Nonviolence and the Critiquing of David Dellinger
As catch phrases go, "Revolutionary Nonviolence" has not exactly caught the imagination of generations or legions of activists. Full of rhetoric and apparently contradictory meanings, those two words balanced against one another appear to confuse as many people as they inspire.
The Chagos Islanders: Britain’s Historic Injustice
Britain's treatment of the inhabitants of a small island territory in the Indian Ocean is a political, legal and national disgrace that must be redressed.
Leopold Sedar Senghor: “Who will teach rhythm to the world laid low by machines and cannons?”
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Leopold Sedar Senghor, poet, cultural thinker, and first President of independent Senegal. At a time when the dialogue among civilizations as well as a possible clash among civilizations is on the world political agenda, it is useful to look at the lasting contribution of Senghor in an article devoted to Senghor as a poet and cultural thinker.
The New Civil Service
I watched two men enter the lobby of the Hotel Mowafaq.
Most Afghans seemed to glide up the center of the lobby staircase with their shawls trailing behind them like Venetian cloaks. But these men wore Western jackets, walked quietly, and stayed close to the banister. I felt a hand on my shoulder. It was the hotel manager.