title: LÉOPOLD SÉDAR SENGHOR NÉGRITUDE, FEDERALISMO E CIVILTÀ DELL’UNIVERSALE
abstract: Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906-2021) was not only the President of Senegal for twenty years, but also a poet, a humanist and a federalist who contributed with his political-cultural commitment to the transition from colonial Africa to modern Africa. In this essay, some crucial aspects of his thought and activity are considered in the following chapters: négritude and francophonie; Eurafrica; independence, federalism and African unity; the history and civilization of the universal. His life and his 
journal: Il Politico