Colette Senghor née Hubert (20 November 1925 –19 November 2019) was a French-born public figure who served as the first

First Lady of Senegal First Lady of Senegal ( French: ''Première Dame du Sénégal'') is the title attributed to the wife of the president of Senegal. The country's current first lady is Marieme Faye Sall, wife of President Macky Sall, who had held the position since ...

from 1960 to 1980, as the wife of President

Léopold Sédar Senghor Léopold Sédar Senghor (; ; 9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese poet, politician and cultural theorist who was the first president of Senegal (1960–80). Ideologically an African socialist, he was the major theoretician o ...

following independence in 1960.

Biography

Hubert was born in Mouzay, Meuse, France and came from a family of old Norman nobility. She was introduced to the Léopold Sédar Senghor, then deputy of Senegal and they married in 1957. When in 1960, Senghor became the president of Senegal, she took no public political position, preferring to be interested in his poetic writings. When Senghor left power, the couple went to France where they stayed in Normandy. She died on November 19, 2019 in Verson, in the western region of Normandy, at their family home.

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