What is Omar Blondin Diop?
{{Infobox person | name = Omar Blondin Diop | birth_date = 1946 | birth_place = [[Niamey]], [[Niger]] | death_date = 1973 | death_place = [[Gorée]], [[Senegal]] }} '''Omar Blondin Diop''' was a [[revolutionary]] and [[artist]] from [[Senegal]]. Born in [[Niger]], he moved between several countries because of his [[activism]]. After going to France for [[university]], he joined the [[Marxist]] movement in [[Paris]] and acted in movies, including two by Jean-Luc Godard.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Blondin Diop|first=Omar|date=1969|title=Chelsea Girls|url=http://www.rouge.com.au/8/chelsea_girls.html|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=2020-10-31|website=Rouge|quote=Omar Diop’s encounter with cinema was brief but striking; apart from La Chinoise, he travelled to London where he appeared in Godard’s One Plus One (1968) alongside Frankie Y (Frankie Dymon) and other Black Panthers, and also in Simon Hartog’s experimental film Soul in a White Room (UK, 1968, 16mm, 3 mins).}}</ref> France [[Deportation|deported]] him back to Senegal in 1969 because of his politics.<ref>{{cite web|title=Il y a 40 ans, l'activiste de gauche Omar Blondin Diop mourait en détention à Gorée|url=http://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.aps.sn%2Farticles.php%3Fid_article%3D112868|website=Agence de Presse Sénégalaise}}</ref> Diop kept doing activism back in Senegal. He, his brothers, and his friends wanted to have a revolution there, because they felt [[Leopold Sedar Senghor|Leopold Senghor's]] government helped the French more than it helped Senegalese people and it was [[Neocolonialism|neocolonial]].<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Bianchini|first1=Pascal|date=2019|title=The 1968 years: revolutionary politics in Senegal|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056244.2019.1631150|journal=Review of African Political Economy|volume=46|issue=160|pages=184–203|doi=10.1080/03056244.2019.1631150|s2cid=198694215}}</ref> Diop started doing [[theatre]] in public to promote revolutionary i