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Sunsail Adds New Yachts to Martinique Fleet

prnewswire.com     23 hrs ago    Send to a friend

The Perfect Starting Point for Caribbean Cruising CLEARWATER, Fla., May 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Sunsail, the company for sailors by sailors, today announced the addition of a new range of charter yachts into its Martinique fleet later this year. Available for bareboat or...

What's so special about Césaire?

jamaica-gleaner.com     May 5, 2008    Send to a friend

The Associated Press Paris: The esteemed Martinique poet and politician Aimé Césaire was a leading figure in the movement for black consciousness.Césaire died in Fort-de-France on the French Caribbean island of Martinique, on Thursday, April 17, 2008.

Africa: Father of 'Negritude' Restored Black Pride

allafrica.com     Apr 28, 2008    1 related    Send to a friend

The death of Aime Cesaire, the Martinique poet recognised as the father of Negritude, evokes memories of a war against racism fought on the front of the written word. ... The notion of black as something beautiful and a source of pride was the greatest compliment that...

Africa: Tribute to the Great Poet, Politician And Philosopher

allafrica.com     Apr 28, 2008    Send to a friend

"We belong," Cesaire once wrote in his trademark revolt and fiery missionary zeal, "to those who say no to darkness". Saying no was the hallmark of the rebel-poet-turned-politician who was also an unflinching surrealist and consummate West Indian. ... Posted to the web 28...

Aimé Césaire: poetry as weapon, Nira Wickramasinghe

opendemocracy.net     Apr 21, 2008    Send to a friend

"Poetic knowledge is born in the great silence of scientific knowledge" (Aimé Césaire) Aimé Césaire died on 17 April 2008 in Fort de France on the French Caribbean island of Martinique at the ripe age of 94. His life and political choices are truly captured in his friend and surrealist writer...

World Pays Tribute to Black Poet

allafrica.com     Apr 21, 2008    4 related    Send to a friend

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...

French leader Sarkozy hails late Martinican poet Aime Cesaire as 'great man'

iht.com     Apr 20, 2008    9 related    Send to a friend

French President Nicolas Sarkozy hailed the late French Martinican poet and politician Aime Cesaire on Sunday as a great man whose anti-colonialist philosophy had worldwide influence. ... Sarkozy credited Cesaire — an early proponent of black pride who died last Thursday...

Obituary: Aimé Césaire

guardian.co.uk     Apr 21, 2008    2 related    Send to a friend

Obituary: Martinican politician, intellectual and poet who was a founding father of the négritude movement ... Aimé Césaire, the Martinican intellectual and politician who has died aged 94, left his mark in two separate, seemingly contradictory, fields. While Césaire the...

Aime Cesaire to be buried in Martinique despite calls for Pantheon burial

iht.com     Apr 19, 2008    23 related    Send to a friend

Aime Cesaire will be buried in his native Martinique Sunday despite suggestions that the poet and politician belongs with other honored figures in the Pantheon of Paris. ... A public memorial ceremony is to be attended by French president Nicolas Sarkozy, soccer great...

Aimé Césaire, 94, poet and human rights leader

iht.com     Apr 17, 2008    7 related    Send to a friend

Aimé Césaire, a poet honored throughout the Francophone world and a crusader for West Indian rights, has died at 94. ... Césaire died Thursday at a Fort-de-France hospital where he was being treated for heart problems and other ailments, a government spokeswoman,...