The former president of the Senegalese Basketball Federation, Abdoulaye Seye Moreau, the first African to lead the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) died Saturday in Dakar at the age of 90.
Former basketball player from 1955 to 1965, international referee then president of the National Federation from 1975 to 1993, he directed the FIBA (International Basketball Federation) from 1998 to 2002.
He is the first African president of this world body before the Malian Hamane Niang who assumed the same function in 2019.
Abdoulaye Seye Moreau then succeeded Lamine Diack, from 2002 to 2006, as chairman of the Senegalese National Olympic and Sports Committee (CNOSS) where he only spent one mandate.
A banker by training, he was for a long time director general of the BNDS (National Development Bank of Senegal).
Seye Moreau was one of the founding members of the Dakar university club (DUC), one of the flagship clubs of Senegalese basketball.
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