Hamadou Tidiane SyNairobi
Africa and the Francophone human race go on paying testimonial to Aimé Césaire, the achromatic poet and political leader from Martinique, who died early on Thursday.
The Gallic Curate for Foreign and European Affaires paid testimonial to celebrated poet and playwright of the Negritude Movement. In a fourth estate release, Mister Claude Bernard Kouchner said Aimé Césaire illustrated the career of French Republic to universalism and to its deep neckties with the Caribbean, the Antilles and Africa.
Said Mister Kouchner: "For all the warfares he fought for humanity, Aimé Cesaire will always be, like he wished in his book A Book on the Tax Return to the Native Land. We wish that he will remain, for all our Martinique brothers, "an instigator and a sower".
Mr Kouchner also asked Gallic Cultural Institutes worldwide to pay hommage to Césaire in the approaching weeks.
Aimé Césaire, born in 1913, came up with the conception of "negritude" together with former Senegalese President Leopold Sédar Senghor and Leon Gontran Damas, the author word form Gallic Guyana.
The three met while studying in City Of Light in the 1920s. They later developed the concept, then a neologism, into the most influential literary and political motion of their time.
Although a Gallic national born in the Caribbean Sea island of Martinique where he lived and died, Césaire, who was of achromatic descent, felt and acted like an African throughout his life, fighting for African causes and against colonialism.
"Césaire have fought one of the hardest conflicts for human dignity, especially for the self-respect of the achromatic man", Boubacar Boris Diop, a senior Senegalese writer, said in a testimonial to the late poet, who combined a rich literary calling with an active political life.
It made him so popular in his native Martinique that he was able to head the metropolis council of Fort-de-France for 56 years. He remained the city's city manager and only left business office when he was incapacitated by old age.
The man's golf course to Republic Of Senegal and the remainder of Africa were through another celebrated author and political leader, the former president and poet, Senghor. They were long-time friends although at some point, they disagreed on some issues.
This happened in 1962, for instance, when Senghor jailed his compatriot, former Senegalese Prime Curate Mamadou Dia, in 1962. But they never wholly parted ways and shared the same passionateness for fine art and literature.
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Both were passionate about the Gallic language, which they mastered, but which they used for their ain involvements to awaken the achromatic consciousness among the achromatic elite in City Of Light during the colonial epoch through their poesy and political writings.
Césaire was a adult male who "fought for freedom all his life; freedom to think, freedom to act, simply the freedom to be," Idrissa Ouédraogo, a movie manager from Burkina Faso told Radio French Republic international. Ouédraogo have directed a theatrical production of one of Césaire's works.
In the Francophone world, particularly in Africa, his poesy and his work stay portion of the classics taught in all schools.
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