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Ibrahima Sar (1915-1976) is a Senegalese trade unionist and politician, former secretary general of the AOF Railway Workers' Federation, and kingpin of the Senegalese Democratic Bloc (BDS). He was a minister several times before and after independence and one of those who shared the fate of Mamadou Dia during the serious political crisis of December 1962 which pitted him against President Senghor.

Biography
Born September 24, 1915 in Saint-Louis, he attended the Blanchot Higher Primary School in his hometown from which he was excluded for indiscipline. He became a railway worker in 1935. Son of the teacher Babacar Sar, he belongs to one of the oldest intellectual families in Senegal and has brothers Amadou Babacar Sar who was Minister of Labor and Menoumbé Sar who was President of the Court of the Accounts of Senegal.

A trade union leader, from October 10, 1947 to March 19, 1948, he led the major railway workers' strike in Dakar-Niger.

Crowned with his success, in 1948 he was one of the founders of the Senegalese Democratic Bloc (BDS) alongside Senghor and contributed greatly to the spread of the party in Thiès and in the regions crossed by the rail.

While Pierre Lami and Mamadou Dia were respectively president and vice-president of the Government Council, Ibrahima Sar was appointed Minister of the Civil Service in the government formed on December 27, 1958. He retained this position during the reshuffle of January 26, 1959. After independence, his role expanded with the title of Minister of Civil Service and Labor, in the government formed on September 7, 1960, then reshuffled on May 13, 1961. Then he was named Minister of Development on November 12, 1962.

At the end of 1962, the open conflict between the President of the Republic Léopold Sédar Senghor and the President of the Government Council Mamadou Dia resulted on December 18, 1962 in the arrest of Dia and four of his companions, Valdiodio Ndiaye, Ibrahima Sar, Joseph Mbaye and Alioune Tall. Like Ndiaye and Mbaye, Ibrahima Sar, after being found innocent of the charges of attempted coup d'état, but for having proclaimed their solidarity with Dia, was sentenced on May 9, 1963 to twenty years of criminal imprisonment and transferred to the special penitentiary center. of Kédougou. He refused to request a presidential pardon from Senghor, declaring that there was no attempted coup d'état therefore no reason to request this pardon that Senghor had proposed in 1968, nevertheless a pardon was granted to the group on the 27th. March 1974. His intransigence is said to be the reason the group remained in prison until March 1974.

Suffering from a urinary tract disease aggravated by his conditions of detention, he died at the main hospital in Dakar on march the 8th 1976. The group was amnestied in April 1976.

Tributes
A street in the South district of Saint-Louis – the former rue Carnot, or rue de l’Hôpital – bears his name. The former Cité des Cadres du Dakar Niger, former Cité Ballabey, today bears his name

Filmography

 * « La crise éclair qu’a vécue Dakar » (online, an INA audiovisual document of 1 min 23 s, retracing Mamadou Dia's attempted coup d'état, originally broadcast by les Actualités françaises December 26, 1962)
 * « Le Sénégal après la crise » (online, an audiovisual document from the INA of 7 min 20 s, offering an assessment after the aborted coup d'état by Mamadou Dia, originally broadcast during the ORTF news edition of December 27, 1962)
 * Valdiodio N'Diaye : l'indépendance du Sénégal, a film by Eric Cloué and Amina N'Diaye Leclerc, Médiathèque des Trois Mondes, 2000
 * Président Dia, un film de William Mbaye, The films Mama Yandé and Ina, 2013 - Watch the video on YouTube

Related articles

 * Politique au Sénégal
 * Crise politique de décembre 1962 (Sénégal)