THE MOVEMENT OF NEGRITUDE "My negritude is not a rock, it's deafness hurled against the clamor of the day"
THE THREE FOUNDERS Leopold Sédar Senghor Aimé Césaire Leon Gontran Damas © Xian, 1995-2007
Léopold Sédar Senghor (à l'extrême droite) en 1923 au collège Libermann de Dakar Collection particulière © DR
"Notebook of a return to the native land" NEGRITUDE POEMS "Notebook of a return to the native land" My negritude is not a stone, its deafness hurled against the clamor of day My negritude is not a leukoma of dead liquid over the earth's dead eye My negritude is neither tower nor cathedral It takes root in the red flesh of the soil It takes root in the ardent flesh of the sky It breaks Aime Cesaire