10th Mayor of Dakar, Senegal. He served in that position from 1934 to 1939.
Mayor writer
Armand Pierre Angrand was born in 1892. He is the son of Pierre Angrand and Mathilde Faye. He is also the grandson of Léopold Angrand . He studied in Gorée and Bathurst in the Gambia, his mother's hometown and finally in Bordeaux and Paris. He then turned to commercial studies but was mobilized for the front, Verdun, in 1916. Wounded twice, he is decorated for his exemplary conduct and demobilized. Back home, he joined his father's business and started politics. With Lamine Guèye and his elder brother Alexandre, he is at the origin of the first Senegalese socialist party. First elected city councilor, he became mayor of Goree from 1928 to 1932 (Goree ceased to be a common exercise in 1829), then mayor of Dakar in 1934, where he succeeds his friend Blaise Diagne. But Armand Pierre Angrand is also known as the author of several books: The Lebous of the peninsula of Cape Verde in 1951 and a French Manuel-Wolof . Armand Pierre is said to have also been the correspondent of the movement created by Marcus Garvey, the Universal Negro Improvement Association . He died in 1964 and buried at the Bel-Air cemetery in Dakar. A street in the Reubeus district in Dakar bears his name.
Mayor writer
Armand Pierre Angrand was born in 1892. He is the son of Pierre Angrand and Mathilde Faye. He is also the grandson of Léopold Angrand . He studied in Gorée and Bathurst in the Gambia, his mother's hometown and finally in Bordeaux and Paris. He then turned to commercial studies but was mobilized for the front, Verdun, in 1916. Wounded twice, he is decorated for his exemplary conduct and demobilized. Back home, he joined his father's business and started politics. With Lamine Guèye and his elder brother Alexandre, he is at the origin of the first Senegalese socialist party. First elected city councilor, he became mayor of Goree from 1928 to 1932 (Goree ceased to be a common exercise in 1829), then mayor of Dakar in 1934, where he succeeds his friend Blaise Diagne. But Armand Pierre Angrand is also known as the author of several books: The Lebous of the peninsula of Cape Verde in 1951 and a French Manuel-Wolof . Armand Pierre is said to have also been the correspondent of the movement created by Marcus Garvey, the Universal Negro Improvement Association . He died in 1964 and buried at the Bel-Air cemetery in Dakar. A street in the Reubeus district in Dakar bears his name.
10th Mayor of Dakar, Senegal. He served in that position from 1934 to 1939.
Mayor writer
Armand Pierre Angrand was born in 1892. He is the son of Pierre Angrand and Mathilde Faye. He is also the grandson of Léopold Angrand . He studied in Gorée and Bathurst in the Gambia, his mother's hometown and finally in Bordeaux and Paris. He then turned to commercial studies but was mobilized for the front, Verdun, in 1916. Wounded twice, he is decorated for his exemplary conduct and demobilized. Back home, he joined his father's business and started politics. With Lamine Guèye and his elder brother Alexandre, he is at the origin of the first Senegalese socialist party. First elected city councilor, he became mayor of Goree from 1928 to 1932 (Goree ceased to be a common exercise in 1829), then mayor of Dakar in 1934, where he succeeds his friend Blaise Diagne. But Armand Pierre Angrand is also known as the author of several books: The Lebous of the peninsula of Cape Verde in 1951 and a French Manuel-Wolof . Armand Pierre is said to have also been the correspondent of the movement created by Marcus Garvey, the Universal Negro Improvement Association . He died in 1964 and buried at the Bel-Air cemetery in Dakar. A street in the Reubeus district in Dakar bears his name.
Mayor writer
Armand Pierre Angrand was born in 1892. He is the son of Pierre Angrand and Mathilde Faye. He is also the grandson of Léopold Angrand . He studied in Gorée and Bathurst in the Gambia, his mother's hometown and finally in Bordeaux and Paris. He then turned to commercial studies but was mobilized for the front, Verdun, in 1916. Wounded twice, he is decorated for his exemplary conduct and demobilized. Back home, he joined his father's business and started politics. With Lamine Guèye and his elder brother Alexandre, he is at the origin of the first Senegalese socialist party. First elected city councilor, he became mayor of Goree from 1928 to 1932 (Goree ceased to be a common exercise in 1829), then mayor of Dakar in 1934, where he succeeds his friend Blaise Diagne. But Armand Pierre Angrand is also known as the author of several books: The Lebous of the peninsula of Cape Verde in 1951 and a French Manuel-Wolof . Armand Pierre is said to have also been the correspondent of the movement created by Marcus Garvey, the Universal Negro Improvement Association . He died in 1964 and buried at the Bel-Air cemetery in Dakar. A street in the Reubeus district in Dakar bears his name.
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