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Le Goût des autres: Literary Festival Commemorates Aimé Césaire
The French literary festival “Le Goût des autres” [The Taste of Others] is being held for the second time from January 24 to 27, 2013, in Le Havre, France. This second edition of the literary festiva… more →
Repeating Islands
Aimé Césaire & Society in the Anthropocene
wrote 1 day ago: This is just my luck: I am writing/researching for an article on the Anthropocene that looks at the … more →
25 juin 1913 - 2013 : Centenaire de la naissance d’Aimé Césaire
wrote 4 weeks ago: Il aurait été centenaire cette année. Le 25 juin 1913, Aimé Césaire naissait à Basse-Pointe en Marti … more →
3 Poems for Poem in Your Pocket Day: Number 1
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wrote 1 month ago: (Classic first-edition cover for I Made My Boy Out of Poetry featuring art by Gustave Blache … more →
The issue of translation and time in Chamoiseau's movement from Créolité to Glissant's 'Relation'
wrote 1 month ago: While gathering scholarly articles, I came across a 2012 interview with Chamoiseau conducted by Oliv … more →
Centennial of Aimé Césaire's Birth - Cahier d'un retour au pays ancestral
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wrote 1 month ago: March 20 has been declared jour de la Francophonie, a day where various Francophone cultures are cel … more →
Ibra Papa Tall
wrote 3 months ago: Ibrahim Papa Taal (Papa Ibra Tall) Profile Country: Senegal Style: Surrealist, Abstract Fine Art, Mo … more →
february cafe, 28 days of black creativity: the negritude arts movement
wrote 3 months ago: Most poets tend to identify with a particular style or era of poetry. As a poet myself, I’ve a … more →
Indolence, unicorns and an arsenal of badass plays and books!
wrote 3 months ago: Not sure if I have an audience as yet but hello nonetheless! This semester I’m taking Drama an … more →
Five (African) Things: Bobby Womack, Nigerian Statistics, King Sunny Ade, Oroma Elewa and Les Afropéennes
wrote 5 months ago: 1. Bobby Womack Covers Clash Magazine in Cyrus Kabiru Shades 2. Nigerian Statistics I was looking fo … more →
Aimé Césaire's Immortal, Eminently Quotable Line
wrote 5 months ago: From Notebook of a Return To My Native Land: For it is not true that the work of man is finished, Th … more →
New Book Launched at the 2012 African Studies Association Annual Meeting!
wrote 5 months ago: Cambria Press author Professor Amadou Fofana’s book, The Films of Ousmane Sembène: Discourse, … more →
All this has happened before and will happen again...
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wrote 5 months ago: TW: racism, hurricane-related damage, erasure of Black people from national narratives, erasure of I … more →
A quote from Sartre's 'Black Orpheus' (1963)
wrote 5 months ago: “The herald of the black soul has passed through the white schools. He has learned the iron law whic … more →
Cambria Press Contemporary Global Performing Arts Series New Book! The Films of Ousmane Sembène - Published Just in Time for the 2012 African Studies Annual Meeting!
wrote 5 months ago: Ousmane Sembène was a Senegalese film director, producer, and writer whom the Los Angeles Times cons … more →
The Films of Ousmane Sembène: Discourse, Culture, and Politics by Amadou Fofana - Discussion Questions
wrote 5 months ago: The following are discussion questions that the author, Professor Amadou Fofana, helpfully compiled … more →
Le Goût des autres: Literary Festival Commemorates Aimé Césaire
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wrote 5 months ago: The French literary festival “Le Goût des autres” [The Taste of Others] is being held for the second … more →
Fatou Kandé Senghor, Guerilla Art Thriller
wrote 6 months ago: Fatou Kandé Senghor is a guerrilla art thriller, film award winner, and lady photographer killer. Fa … more →
NEGRITUDE (An Ode to Africa)
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wrote 6 months ago: Negritude Smile stuck-on, pride woven with ego; Doubt vanquished, grief knifed to zero. I beat my ch … more →
Limbé : Un poème de Léon-Gontran Damas pour le 10 juin
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wrote 7 months ago: Celebrating the Negritude Movement, delivrance from French slavery. Here is Limbe, written in 1937 b … more →
