Monday, April 21, 2008

IOL: Black consciousness pioneer dies

"Paris - Aime Cesaire, who died on Thursday, April 17, 2008, aged 94, was a founder of a pioneer black consciousness movement in the 1930s who became a leading poet and writer as well as an outspoken critic of French colonialism.Cesaire made it his life's work to promote black cultural identity in his native Caribbean and in Africa, no matter whether it annoyed the French establishment on the left or right. ..."
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