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Aimé Césaire

1913 – 2008

Martinique and Paris, France

Martinican poet and politician who, with Senghor and Damas, shaped the Négritude movement, wrote Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (1939), and was elected mayor of Fort-de-France in 1945.

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Aimé Césaire photographed in 2003
Credit: Jean Baptiste Devaux, via Store norske leksikon. License: CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Sources

  1. New York Public Library, Schomburg Center, "Aimé Césaire memorial collection" (Sc MG 947) (Primary source)
  2. BlackPast, "Aimé Césaire (1913-2008)" (Reference)
  3. University of the West Indies, UWI Today, Elizabeth Hackshaw, "Remembering Césaire" (May–June 2008) (Primary source)

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