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Political opposition in Senegal: 1960–67

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Donal Cruise O'Brien
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Since the separate independence of Senegal in June 1960, after the breakup of the Mali Federation, organized political opposition in Senegal has not been able to maintain the position which it enjoyed before independence. The failure of the opposition can be explained only in part by reference to the repressive measures adopted by the government over this period; it should also be seen as a result of the internal weaknesses of the opposition itself. The purpose of this article is to outline the various conditions which have enabled the governing party, the Union Progressiste Sénégalaise (UPS) of M. Leopold Sédar Senghor, to remain in power until the present time, despite its own lack of strict internal discipline or general sense of purpose.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 2 , Issue 4 , 01 December 1967 , pp. 557 - 566
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1967

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References

1 La Lutte, July 1959.

2 Indépendance Africaine, No. 5, 5 September 1959.

3 Diop, Majhmout, Classes et Idéologies de Classe au Sénégal, Eds. du Comité Central, 1964 (no place of publication).Google Scholar

4 Appel du P.R.A.‐Sénégal au Peuple, Dakar, 3 November 1963.

5 Pour Une Nouvelle Politique Sénégalaise, Dakar, November 1964. (Italics in original).

6 Appel aux Masses a aux Cadres Politiques Demeurés Fidles au Programme du P.R.A.‐Sénégal, Dakar. 16 February 1963.

7 Sénégal: Situation Politique Intérieure, January 1962 (unsigned typescript, privately communicated).