cahier d un retour au pays natal

• The African Diaspora Treks to 'Hot Feet' Opening

Lending their support to "Hot Feet" were legends of the dance world including the triple threat Obba Babatunde, currently on Broadway in "Chicago." The amiable Babatunde paused to chat with the legendary choreographer/dancer Geoffrey Holder, (who won a Tony award for "The Wiz"), the inimitable Andre De Shields, and the gifted Hinton Battle. Representing the African and Caribbean Diaspora were Nigerian-American filmmaker Adetoro Makinde, Ruff Nation's recording artist Kulcha Don from Montserrat, and Muriel Wiltord, director of the Martinique Promotion Bureau - USA & Latin America division. Wiltord presented the dynamic, multi-talented Keith David (who stars as the impresario of the dance company in "Hot Feet") with a copy of the classic Aimee Cesaire novel, "Cahier d'un retour au pay...

... Aimee Cesaire novel, "Cahier d'un retour au pays natal" ("Return to my Native Land"), and invited t...

• New York Amsterdam News
• August 06, 2009

• Father of Negritude, Aimé Césaire, Passes at 94

If America only vaguely knows of Langston Hughes and James Baldwin, they know nothing of Aimé Césaire. Césaire, who died on April 17 at 94, was to the Black Francophone writers what Hughes and Baldwin was to African American letters. In fact, the connection between Césaire and Hughes is significant: Césaire saw Hughes as a direct link to the concept of "négritude," which was so influential in the wave of anti-colonialism in Europe, Africa and the Diaspora in the 1930s. Césaire denned it this way: "The simple recognition of the fact that one is black, the acceptance of this fact and of our destiny as blacks, of our history and culture." The concept first appeared in his poem "Notebook...," but he always attributed the spirit of its origin to the African American writers and artists who f...

..."Notebook of a Return to the Native Land" ("Cahier d'un Retour au Pays Natal"), which marked a litera...

• New York Amsterdam News
• August 27, 2009

• The liberating power of words: an interview with Poet Aime Cesaire.

...Was your Cahier d'un retour au pays natal, published in 1939, just...

• Journal of Pan African Studies
• Vol. 2 Nbr. 4, June 2008