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Famous Martinique-Born Poet Dead

CaribWorldNews, BASSE-POINTE, Martinique, Fri. April 18, 2008:

The man who was celebrated as the founding father of the `negritude` movement has died from a heart attack.

Aime Cesaire died in his native Martinique yesterday, France's Ministry of Culture said. He was 94 and was mayor of the island's main city Fort-de-France for more than half a century.

Last week he was admitted to a local hospital suffering from heart and other problems. Cesaire rose to fame with his `Notebook of a Return to the Native Land`, written in the late 1930s, in which he says `my negritude is neither tower nor cathedral, it plunges into the red flesh of the soil.`

His poems spoke of the degradation of black people in the Caribbean and described the rediscovery of an African sense of self. He was the author of Discours sur le colonialisme, Discourse on Colonialism, a denunciation of European colonial racism which was published in the French review Présence Africaine. In 1968, he published the first version of Une Tempête, a radical adaptation of Shakespeare's play The Tempest for a black audience.

Cesaire was born in 1913 in Basse-Pointe. In 1937 he married Suzanne Roussi and had six children. – CaribWorldNews.com

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