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Lamine Diakhate was a Senegalese politician and diplomat who served as the Prime Minister of Senegal from 1981 to 1983. He was born in the village of Ndioum, Senegal, on 16 September 1928. Diakhate was educated at the Ecole Normale William Ponty in Dakar, and then at the University of Paris, where he earned a degree in law. He then returned to Senegal and worked as a lawyer and a professor of law at the University of Dakar. In 1961, Diakhate was appointed as the Minister of Justice in the government of President Léopold Sédar Senghor. He served in this position until 1968, when he was appointed as the Minister of Foreign Affairs. He held this position until 1981, when he was appointed as the Prime Minister of Senegal. Diakhate served as Prime Minister until 1983, when he was replaced by Mamadou Dia. He then returned to his position as Minister of Foreign Affairs, a post he held until 1988. Diakhate was a member of the Socialist Party of Senegal, and was a close ally of President Senghor. He was also a member of the African Union, and served as the President of the Organization of African Unity from 1983 to 1984. Diakhate died on 15 April, 2020, at the age of 91.

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Born 16 September, 1928
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Date of death 1987
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1979

In the course of all of his public functions Mr. Diakhate actively participated in a large number of literary festivals and conferences in Africa, Europe, and Asia. Thus he attended several Biennales Internationales de Poésie, for example the V. and und XII. Biennale of Knokke-Le-Zout in Belgium (September 1961; 1975), the Première and Troisième Biennale de la Langue Française in Namur and Liège (Belgium) in the years 1965 and 1969, the Colloques des Écrivains Afro-Scandinaves in Stockholm, Sweden, the Congrès des Ècrivains Afro-Asiatiques in Beirut, Lebanon in March 1967, the Festival Poétique de Struga (ex-Jugoslavia) in August 1976, the Fourth World Congress of Poets in Seoul, Corea, from July 2 until 7th, 979, as well as the 15e Congrès de l’Union Internationale des Journalistes et de la Presse de Langue Française in Paris from September 29. September until bis October 6, 1979. On several occasions Mr. Diakhate became one of the organizers, for example of the Premier Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres from April 1 until April 24, 1966 in Dakar, the Festival Culturel Panafricain d’Alger of the year 1969, the Journées Culturelles Africaines de Turin, Italy, in April 1967. the Colloque sur la Négritude in Dakar, Senegal, in April 1971, as well as the Introduction à la Poésie de L. S. Senghor in Casablanca, Morokko, in April 1974.

1976

The literary merits of Lamine Diakhate as an auteur et poète noire africain d’expression française were formally recognized on several occasions. Thus he was elected a member of the Société des Gens de Lettres de France in November 1976. And he was awarded two literary prizes: The Prix Edgar Poe for the year 1971, granted to him by the Maison de la Poésie in Paris, and the Grand Prix Littéraire de l’Afrique Noire 1979 for his novel Chalys de Harlem.

1928

Lamine Diakhate (September 16, 1928, in Saint-Louis, Senegal – 1987) was an author, poet and literary critic of the négritude school and has served his country as a politician and diplomat.