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Ousmane Socé

Died in 1973

Ousmane Socé Diop was born on 31 October 1911 at Rufisque. Having attended the Koranic school and then the colonial school, he was one of the first African scholarship holders to study at a French university, and came out of it a veterinarian. In 1953 he founded the review Bingo, sat in the French Senate, then represented Senegal as ambassador to the United States and as delegate to the United Nations. He retired in 1968, his eyesight failing, and died in Dakar on 27 October 1973.

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