Aimé Césaire

The Tragedy of King Christophe

Tragic play about Haitian revolutionary leader and independence struggle

About the author

Aimé Césaire
Aimé Césaire

Martinican poet, playwright, and politician who co-founded the Négritude movement with Senghor. Discourse on Colonialism is a searing indictment of European civilization's colonial violence. His Notebook of a Return to the Native Land is the foundational poem of francophone Black literature.

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