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Biography of Abdoulaye Ly
Name: Abdoulaye Ly
Birth Date: 1919
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Saint-Louis, Senegal
Nationality: Senegalese
Gender: Male
Occupations: political leader, historian
Abdoulaye Ly
Abdoulaye Ly (born 1919) was an African historian and Senegalese political leader. He was a key leader of the post-World War II African student generation and among the first to demand independence from France as a legitimate political goal.Abdoulaye Ly was born in Saint-Louis, Republic of Senegal. He received his higher education in Paris, where he was awarded a doctorate in history and was president of the African Students' Association. Upon his return to Senegal in the middle 1950s, he was appointed head of the historical museum at Gorée and assistant director of the French Institute of Black Africa (Institute Française d'Afrique Noire).Striving for IndependenceA man of great principle and courage, Ly did not hesitate to enter into a minority opposition, even at great peril to his own career, when he thought conditions so warranted. At a time when almost all the established African leaders …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…Ly has been living a quiet life in Saint-Louis for the past several years. Further Reading Ruth Schacter Morgenthau presents the best history of Ly's role in the politics of the immediate post-World War II period in Political Parties in French West Africa (1964). See also Michael Crowder, West Africa under Colonial Rule (1968), for historical background and Irving Leonard Markovitz, Léopold Sedar Senghor and the Politics of Negritude (1969), for a discussion of the politics of contemporary France and Senegal. Among Ly's numerous books, none translated into English thus far, Les Masses Africaines et l'Actuelle Condition Humaine (1956), which discusses the theory of modern economic expansionism and anti-imperialism, is the most important; He also published La Compagnie du Sénégal (1958), on the mechanics of French exploitation of the colonies; and Mercenaires Noires (1957), in which he asserted that black troops were the cannon fodder and instruments of European rivalries.
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