This film charts the work of Aime Cesaire, one of the founders of the negritude literary and philosophical movement in the 1930s. His work has been described as “a declaration of war” and belongs to a wave of anti-colonial thought that emerged as part of the struggle for independence.

A film by Marcela Pizarro Coloma, Midiaou Diallo and Pierangelo Pirak and Pomona Pictures. Voices: artist/curator, Cindy Sissoko and poet, Esi Yankey. This film is part of a series, Race Historicised: Epistemologies of Colour, that delves into the archives of Black intellectual thought, to showcase the work of towering figures who have contributed to the anti-racist struggle, in both theory and action.

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/39506