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Biography of Lamine Gueye
Name: Lamine Gueye
Birth Date: September 20, 1891
Death Date: June, 1968
Place of Birth: Médine, Mali
Nationality: Senegalese
Gender: Male
Occupations: politician, lawyer, mayor
Lamine Gueye
Lamine Gueye (1891-1968) was a Senegalese statesman. One of the major political leaders of French-speaking West Africa, he attacked the autocratic and discriminatory aspects of colonial rule--never colonial rule itself.Lamine Gueye was born on Sept. 20, 1891, in Médine in what is today Mali. Completing his education in France, he graduated as a lawyer in 1921. He returned home to found one of Africa's first political parties and in 1924 became mayor of Saint-Louis. In 1937 he became the leader of the Senegalese branch of the French Socialist party (SFIO) and with Léopold Senghor was elected deputy for Senegal to the French National Assembly in 1945. In 1946 he again won the seat of deputy and also the mayoralty of Dakar. In 1948, however, Senghor left Gueye to form his own party, causing Gueye to lose his seat in the 1951 elections. In 1958 Gueye rejoined Senghor in a movement of national reconciliation and in 1959 …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…law of May 7, 1946, declared that all the inhabitants of the overseas territories had the rights of citizenship as French nationals. The law of 1950 stipulated that French and African civil servants were entitled to equality of treatment.Gueye was more than simply the "grand old man" of African politics. He worked hard for his constituency of a mainly urban bourgeoisie, proudly accepting at their face value France's most heroically proclaimed ideals, and acted as a bridge to the period of mass nationalism. Further Reading Ruth Schacter Morgenthau does a fine job of placing Gueye in the proper historical context in her Political Parties in French-speaking West Africa (1964). Gueye is also discussed in Ronald Segal, Political Africa: A Who's Who of Personalities and Parties (1961). For a consideration of Gueye's role in the development of modern French African politics see Irving Leonard Markovitz, Leopold Sédar Senghor and the Politics of Negritude (1969).
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