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Mamadou Dia Quotes

1910–2009

Mamadou Dia (18 July, 1910 – 25 January, 2009) was a Senegalese politician who served as the first Prime Minister of Senegal from 1957 until 1962, when he was forced to resign and was subsequently imprisoned amidst allegations that he was planning to stage a military coup to overthrow President Léopold Sédar Senghor.

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Senegal has decided to leave the Federation of Mali to become a free and independent state.

In my press articles, I presented more and more the problems and claims of the bystanders. I described the misery that reigned among them.

By de-socialising and de-nationalising the Plan... they undermined the foundations for building a self-centred national economy, substituting a model of a captive economy instead.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Mamadou Dia (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.