Talla sylla biography

Talla Sylla (born January 21, ^[1]) is a Senegalese politician and the leader of Action pour la Renaissance/Wallu Askanu Senegal (AR/WA Senegal).

He was previously the leader of Alliance for Progress and Justice Jëf-Jël and was that party's candidate in the presidential election.

Biography

Sylla was born in Pikine, in the outskirts of Dakar. Sylla joined the African Independence Party at the age of He later entered the Cheikh Anta Diop University to study sociology.

In October he was elected president of the Dakar Students Coordination (CED).

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The following year he led a students strike. In , after another students strike, Sylla was expelled from UCAD. He then shifted to France, to continue his studies there. At the University of Grenoble he founded the Youth for Change (JPA) in When Sylla returned to Senegal in , JPA was transformed into a political party, Jëf-Jël.

In the April parliamentary election, Sylla was the sole Jëf-Jël candidate elected to