Aimé Césaire (Martinican Poet)

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Syllabus of the Subject: Aimé Césaire (Poet, Martinique).

  1. The Martinican poet Aimé Césaire
  2. The concept of blackness of Aimé Césaire
The Subject (e-learning) “Aimé Césaire (Poet, Martinique)” is part of the following Higher Education Programs (EENI- School of Business & HA University):
  1. Doctorates: Africa, America, Religions and Business
  2. Bachelor's Degree in Inter-African Business

Languages of study Higher Education in English or Post-secondary Education in French Aimé Césaire Study in Portuguese Aimé Césaire Tertiary Education in Spanish Aimé Césaire.

Sample of the Subject: Aimé Césaire (Poet, Martinique)
Aimé Césaire (Martinican Poet)

Description of the Subject (Higher Education, e-learning): Aimé Fernand David Césaire

The Martinican Poet, Author and Politician Aimé Fernand David Césaire (1913 - 2008) is one of the leaders and founders of the “Negritude Movement.” In his works; he criticised the “humanist” elucidation of the colonialism.

“Nobody colonises inoffensively, those civilisations justifying the colonisation is an Ill Civilisation” Aimé Césaire

  1. Place of birth of Aimé Césaire: Basse-Pointe (Martinique, the Caribbean)
  2. Founder of the Negritude Movement
  3. Founder of “Tropiques” (literary review) with his wife (Suzanne Roussi)

Main topics of the work of Aimé Césaire:

  1. The “Négritude” (Léon Damas and Leopold Sédar Senghor)
  2. Effects of the Colonialism
  3. For Aimé Césaire, the colonialism was a Western system based on the economic exploitation (Discourse on Colonialism)
  4. For him, colonialism, racism or barbarism is the same

Bibliography of Aimé Césaire:

  1. Discourse on Colonialism
  2. Notebook of a Return to the Native Land
  3. Miraculous weapons
  4. Tragedy of King Christophe
  5. A Season in the Congo
  6. Toussaint Louverture: The French Revolution and the colonial problem


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