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Binding: Hardcover
Description: Aime Cesaire was a poet and later a politician from the Caribbean island of Martinique who spoke out against the sufferings and humiliations endured by the peoples of the former French colonies. In Aime Cesaire: No to Humiliation we are with Cesaire in 1930s Paris. The young Martinican poet and his friends Leopold Sedar Senghor and Leon Gontran Damas are launching the Negritude movement. Together they celebrate their Black African roots protesting French colonial rule and policies of assimilation. They invite West Indians Senegalese Guyanese and others to reject the suffocating French colonial presence and to take pride in their accents their cultures and their shared histories. Aime's great book - length poem Notebook on the Return to the Native Land and other works are a global inspiration. His speeches enliven the crowds back home in Martinique and he rises in the political arena defending Martinican identity. As a writer as the Mayor of Fort - de - France and deputy of the French National Congress Aime Cesaire continues to write and to fight against colonial power and for the dignity of Black peoples everywhere.
Title: Aime Cesaire: No To Humiliation
Author(s): Nimrod
Publisher: Seven Stories Press U. S.
Barcode: 9781644212578
Pages: 64 Pages
Publication Date: 8/5/2025
Category: General Fiction (Children's / Teenage)