He served as Minister of Youth and Sport under President Léopold Sédar Senghor and was Mayor of Mbour from 1966 until his assassination.
He later served as an administrator at the Collège moderne in Thiès and at the école régionale at Mbour, where he met his wife.
He was elected to the Assemblée nationale in 1956 (a post of a limited, advisory role in the revised French colonial system under the Loi Cadre of that year).
[2] Diop's funeral in Mbour was an episode of national mourning, with President Senghor and Lamine Guèye in attendance.
She was elected the first female deputy to the National Assembly of Senegal in 1963 and was later a cabinet minister under President Abdou Diouf.