Luc Andre Diouf Dioh

Luc André Diouf Dioh (born 18 January 1965) is a Senegalese-Spanish politician as well as a trade unionist and syndicalist. He is known in the Spanish media for being the first politician of African descent elected from the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party, as well as for being homeless in the past and having to sleep on a beach of the Canary Islands for over a month.

Personal life Diouf was born in Joal-Fadiouth, an island off the coast of Senegal. He is one of 10 siblings, with eight brothers and one sister, and grew up in an agricultural environment. Unlike most of Senegal, Diouf was raised Roman Catholic and most of his community was Christian. After leaving the university, Diouf traveled to Lyon, then Utrecht, and then Cincinnati in search of work. Diouf alleges that it began due to racist comments, though the sentence does not refer to racist behavior. The victim was an elderly person who was kicked in the head by Diouf, leaving him with lifelong injuries, as reflected in the sentence.

In 1996 Diouf joined the Workers' Commissions, or CCOO, He was on the party's second ballot list in the April 2019 Spanish general election, where he was elected to the 13th Congress of Deputies. Together with Ignacio Garriga, Diouf is only the second individual of sub-Saharan African descent elected to congress after Rita Bosaho.