Mamadou Dia

Mamadou Dia
Dia in 1962
1st Prime Minister of Senegal
In office
18 May 1957 – 18 December 1962
PresidentLéopold Sédar Senghor
Preceded byNone
Succeeded byAbdou Diouf
Personal details
Born(1910-07-18)18 July 1910
Kombolé, French West Africa
(now Senegal)
Died25 January 2009(2009-01-25) (aged 98)
Dakar, Senegal
Political partySenegalese Democratic Bloc

Mamadou Dia (18 July 1910 – 25 January 2009)[1] 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.