Lawyer
Madeleine Devès Senghor is a worthy daughter of the Senghorian period because she evokes with the same interest her former functions in the Senegalese High Administration and her work as a plastic artist in love with culture, which has accompanied her all her life.
A lawyer with a specialized training in public law, she was part of the first class of students of the independence, in 1961, and was given responsibility as soon as she left the university, as her cohort was destined to replace the colonial civil servants when they left.
“We were the generation of national construction. We saw ourselves as bricklayers at the foot of a wall and we had to construct the building. ”
The difficulties she recounts are those of her personal choices that were influenced by the destiny, personified by her father who was opposed to her pursuing an international career, for fear of seeing his daughter leave for a foreign country which could be violent for a woman.
