ABSTRACT
Seemingly overlooked in the US until recently are the works of Leopold Senghor of Senegal and Aimee Cesaire of Martinique (also David Diop). Unless one spoke French and/or travelled abroad prior to ’63, one could hardly have heard of these black writers. Our noted anthologizers failed to include their works, and so for most of us they did not in effect exist; although the first two gentlemen have been promoting “Negritude” since the Thirties.
