Topic: Aime Cesaire

Aime Cesaire

April 17, 2008, Fort-de-France), Martinican poet, playwright, and politician, who was cofounder with Leopold Sedar Senghor of Negritude, an influential movement to restore the cultural identity of black Africans.. Together with Senghor and others involved in the Negritude movement, Cesaire was educated ...

Leon Damas

Aspects of the topic L on Damas are discussed in the following places at Britannica. Senghor (elected first president of the Republic of Senegal in 1960), who, along with Aime Cesaire from Martinique and Leon Damas from French Guiana, began to examine ...

Death of a Poet

How to honour a giant of French literature who has had a unique place in the hearts and conscience of the country for the best part of the last 50 years? That's the question that many are posing after the death ...