Luc André Diouf

Diouf was born in Joal-Fadiouth, an island off the coast of Senegal. He is one of 10 siblings,[3] with eight brothers and one sister, and grew up in an agricultural environment.[4] Unlike most of Senegal, Diouf was raised Roman Catholic and most of his community was Christian.[4]

Diouf attended the Cheikh Anta Diop University in the Senegalese capital of Dakar where he studied economics.[5] After leaving the university, Diouf traveled to Lyon, then Utrecht, and then Cincinnati in search of work.[3] In 1992 he emigrated to Gran Canaria because he had family members living there.[1] He quickly ran out of money though and for 42 days Diouf was homeless and had to sleep on the beach.[4] Eventually Diouf contracted pneumonia and had to be taken to a hospital in Las Palmas, where one of the nurses put him in contact with social workers.[3] He would later get a job at a hotel in Jandía on the island of Fuerteventura and would also find work as a computer technician.[3] Diof is a polyglot who speaks several languages: Wolof, Serer, French, and Spanish. He learned German while interacting with tourists at his hotel job.[4]

The 8th february 2005 he pushed to the floor an eldery, and once there kicked him in the head, provocating brain injuries and several damage in his eardrum. Luc André Diouf recognised himself guilty and was condempted to a sentence of one-year-and-half by the Provincial Court of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. [6] [7] [8]

In 1996 Diouf joined the Workers' Commissions, or CCOO,[3] where he worked as an advisory technician, as coordinator in the union's immigrant information centers, and as the secretary of immigration for the union's division in the Canary Islands.[1] In 2001 Diouf acquired Spanish citizenship.[5]

Having participated in politics for a significant amount of time, in 2017 Diouf officially joined the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party. In June 2017 he was appointed to the Federal Executive Commission of the party.[9] He was on the party's second ballot list in the April 2019 Spanish general election,[10] where he was elected to the 13th Congress of Deputies.[2] Together with Ignacio Garriga, Diouf is only the second individual of sub-Saharan African descent elected to congress after Rita Bosaho.[2]