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- Omar Diop was born on September 18, 1946 in Niamey, Niger. He was an actor, known for The Chinese (1967) and Soul in a White Room (1968). He died on May 11, 1973 in Gorée, Sénégal.
- Son of a doctor and born in Colonial French Africa, he studied in Paris at famous high schools and colleges. He then met leftist leaders Alain Krivine and Daniel Cohn-Bendit and also Anne Wiazemsky who was then a student in Nanterre and Jean-Luc Godard. He was considered an important member of the 1968 student organizations. He was expelled from France at the same time as Cohn-Bendit. He later was jailed in Sénégal and died in mysterious circumstances in the prison on Gorée island in 1973. Anne Wiasemsky talks about him in her autobiographical novel 'Une année studieuse' (2012).
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