Mamadou Dia -Senegal- (1910-2009)
First, Prime Minister of independent Senegal, Mamadou Dia was a Senegalese politician. Together with Léopold Sédar Senghor, he founded the Senegalese Democratic Bloc in 1948, then, in 1956, the Senegalese Progressive Union, becoming the Senegalese Secretary General of both parties. He was one of the protagonists of the political crisis of December 1962 which pitted him against Léopold Sédar Senghor.
