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Blaise Diagne (13 October 1872 - 11 May 1934) was a French political leader, the first black African elected to the French Chamber of Deputies, and mayor of Dakar.
From a Serer father and a Manjack mother originating in Guinea-Bissau, Diagne was born in Gorée, Senegal and studied in France before joining the French customs service in 1892. He served in Dahomey (modern day Benin), French Congo (now Republic of the Congo), Réunion, Madagascar, and French Guiana. In September 1899, while in Réunion, Diagne became a freemason, joining a lodge affiliated with the Grand Orient de France.
Diagne was elected to the Chamber of Deputies of France in 1914 as Senegal's representative. He was reelected several times, serving until his death in 1934. From 1914 to 1917 he caucused with the Marxist-socialist Section française de l'Internationale ouvrière, forerunner of the French Socialist Party, before affiliating with the Independents led by Georges Mandel. In 1914 after recently becoming the newly elected deputy of Senegal, Blaise Diagne was critical in the government intervention in an outbreak of plague which struck Dakar. In 1916 Diagne convinced the French parliament to approve a law (Loi "Blaise Diagne") granting full citizenship to all residents of the so-called Four Communes in Senegal: Dakar, Gorée, Saint-Louis, and Rufisque. This measure constituted a considerable element of the French colonial policy of a "civilizing mission" (mission civilisatrice). He was a leading recruiter for the French army during World War I, when thousands of black West Africans fought on the Western Front for France.
LE TOUBAB - Blaise Diagne
Film aéroport Blaise Diagne (AIBD) vue du ciel ( Décembre 2015 )
Aibd Aéroport International Blaise Diagne
L'aéroport international Blaise Diagne.mp4
Aeroport Blaise Diagne en images
Un Train Express Entre Dakar et l'Aéroport Blaise Diagne
Sénégal, Vers la reprise des travaux de l'aéroport Blaise-Diagne
PREMIER ATTERISSAGE A L'AEROPORT BLAISE DIAGNE
Finalisation de la construction de l’aéroport Blaise Diagne SUMMA et LIMAK
Alex concert lycee Blaise Diagne de dakar
AEROPORT INTERNATIONAL BLAISE DIAGNE ( Fevrier 2011)
Lycée blaise diagne
It was 2am when I hit town again
And I jumped off the big freight train
As quiet as a mouse
I went to Bony’s house
And I tapped on the window pane
She said come on in you look soaked through the skin
Get out of the wind and rain
She sat on her bed and she smiled and she said
It’s good to have you back again
Turn out the light make the most of the night
I’m only here til morning
Then I must go from the fire light glow
The wind and the rain are calling
Bony wept tears of joy for her long lost boy
Down on her bending knee
I was tempted to stay
But the very next day
I knew it could never be
So I got up slow said I really gotta go
Going back to the wind and rain
But Bony sleep light some cold rainy night
You know I’m coming back again
Turn out the light make the most of the night
I’m only here til morning
Then I must go from the fire light glow
The wind and the rain are calling
Turn out the light make the most of the night
I’m only here til morning
Then I must go from the fire light glow
The wind and the rain are calling
Turn out the light make the most of the night
I’m only here til morning
Then I must go from the fire light glow
The wind and the rain are calling
Turn out the light make the most of the night
I’m only here til morning
Then I must go from the fire light glow