World Pays Tribute to Black Poet

                   
allafrica.com     Apr 21, 2008            

Africa and the Francophone world continue paying tribute to Aimé Césaire, the black poet and political leader from Martinique, who died early on Thursday. ... The French Minister for Foreign and European Affaires paid tribute to renowned poet and dramatist of the... [read full story]                

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Senegal: World Pays Tribute to Black Poet

allafrica.com     Apr 21, 2008          

Africa and the Francophone world continue paying tribute to Aimé Césaire, the black poet and political leader from Martinique, who died early on Thursday. ... The French Minister for Foreign and European Affaires paid tribute to renowned poet and dramatist of the...                

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Kenya: Aimé Fernand Césaire - Tribute to a Literary Monument

allafrica.com     Apr 21, 2008          

When Jomo Kenyatta penned Facing Mount Kenya in 1938, he was reacting like many Black intellectuals of the time to British and French cultural imperialism. ... The logic of the imperialists was simple: The African has no history, and is therefore devoid of a culture....                

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Aimé Fernand Césaire - Tribute to a Literary Monument

allafrica.com     Apr 21, 2008          

When Jomo Kenyatta penned Facing Mount Kenya in 1938, he was reacting like many Black intellectuals of the time to British and French cultural imperialism. ... The logic of the imperialists was simple: The African has no history, and is therefore devoid of a culture....                

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Hail, Césaire

nytimes.com     Apr 23, 2008          

Aimé Césaire in 1993 (Chester Higgins Jr.) Aimé Césaire, the Caribbean poet and a major influence on what later became known as postcolonial literature, has died at 94. Born in Martinique, in the early 1930s Césaire traveled on a scholarship to Paris, where he and his friend Léopold Sédar Senghor...                

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