By Marbel T.
Just like Nelson Mandela, he was a great freedom fighter, an opposition figure under president Leopold Sedar Senghor, Abdou Diouf and Abdoulaye Wade.
He was jailed numerous times and spent many years in exile elsewhere in Africa and in the Eastern Bloc.
Amath Dansokho was a leader of the opposition party of Independence and Labour, an ally of president Macky Salk.
The veteran opposition figure and former minister died at 82 in Darker.
Born in Kedougou in Southeast Senegal in 1937, Dansokho has a record of over 69 years in Senegalese politics. He was a member of the Africa Independence party , the first communist party in French-ruled West Africa , before leaving to form the party of Independence and Labour.
Dansoko served as mayor of Kedougou and was a deputy in the national Assembly before made a minister under Wade. He got fired for criticizing the government.
Human right activist Alioune Tine wrote on Twitter, referring to Dansokho’s death;
“A baobab has fallen, a man who fought every battle for democracy and fundamental liberties”
Amath Dansokho died on Friday following an illness and will be laid to rest in the days ahead.
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