| Abstract: | In Senegal, the political strength and the present government of Leopold Senghor have firm roots in a past which saw the gradual formation over a long period of two types of alliances: first, those between traditional and religious leaders, and secondly, those between the same traditional and religious leaders and the new elites (the Administration and the new urban bourgeoisie). The values, ideologies and coalitions of Blaise Diagne and Lamine Gueye reflect this process and are the subject of the present analysis. Diagne above all created an alliance of traditional and religious leaders and acted on their behalf as a bridge to the governmental establishment Gueye raised to political self-consciousness the Western-educated civil servants, teachers, and members of the professions who lived primarily in the cities, and made them - and France - realize they were a force to be reckoned with, within, of course, the political and cultural bounds of France itself. Notes. |
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