Aime Cesaire was a French poet, author, and politician. During his studies in Paris, he started a journal called “L’etudiant noir” with other students who felt culturally alienated by the societal colonial stigmatization of Martinque and Guyanian students. During this time, he wrote the poem Return to my Native Land which subsequently launched the negritude literary movement. He became a huge proponent for combatting colonials, acculturation, and communism. “A Return to my Native Land” has been called the first “grand cri noir” as it takes the reader on an emotional at times spiritual and perhaps even existential journey of hope and despair.

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