Lamine Guèye
Lawyer and politician (1891 – 1968)
Family : Place of birth : Médine (present-day Mali) ; Date of birth : 20 September 1891 ; Mother : Coura Gueye Bacre Waly ; Father : Birahim Guèye, merchant
Education : After Qur’anic studies he obtained the primary school certificate (1906) and the brevet élémentaire (1907), then a degree in mathematics and a doctorate in law.
Action : A jurist, he was the initiator and rapporteur of the law of 7 May 1946, which allowed natives of the French African colonies to obtain French citizenship and ended the indigénat regime. Co-founder of “l’Aurore de Saint-Louis” (1912), a member of the SFIO from 1923, mayor of Saint-Louis (1925), then mayor of Dakar (1945) and deputy (1945–1951).
Trials : Electoral defeats in 1928, 1929, 1935 and 1951.
Legacy : First president of the National Assembly of independent Senegal (1960–1968), he died in 1968.
Sources
- Cairn.info — « La citoyenneté dans l'outre-mer français » (Revue française d'administration publique, 2002)
- Cairn — « L’exclusion des indigènes originaires des quatre communes… de la citoyenneté française » (RFDC, 2019)
- Cairn — « Empire, droits et citoyenneté, de 212 à 1946 » (Annales, 2008)
- Wikipédia — Lamine Guèye