Aimé Césaire (1913–2008) was a Martinican poet, playwright and politician, and one of the founding figures of the Négritude movement. His long poem Notebook of a…
Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906–2001) was a Senegalese poet, cultural theorist and statesman. He was the first President of Senegal (1960–1980) and the first African elected to…
Mariama Bâ (1929–1981) was a Senegalese writer and feminist whose debut novel Une si longue lettre (1979) won the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa and…
Ahmadou Kourouma (1927–2003) was an Ivorian novelist, one of the most important voices in African literature in French. His debut novel Les Soleils des Indépendances (1968)…
Albert Camus (1913–1960) was an Algerian-born French novelist, philosopher and journalist. He is one of the most widely read French-language authors in the world. He was…
Patrick Chamoiseau (born 1953) is a Martinican novelist and one of the three authors of the foundational Créolité manifesto Éloge de la Créolité (1989). His novel…
