Léopold Sédar Senghor
1906 – 2001 · Senegal · Literature, Philosophy
Poet-president who co-founded Négritude.
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- Kamau Brathwaite
1930 – 2020 · Literature, History
Négritude's African recovery underlies Brathwaite's nation-language project.
- Ousmane Sembène
1923 – 2007 · Literature
Sembène's cinema and fiction argue with Négritude's cultural politics.
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