Aime Cesaire is a Martinican and French poet, author, and
politician. He was one of the founders of the Negritude movement in
francophone literature . He was born June 26, 1913 in BASSE POINTE
, MARTINIQUE and died in 2008.
Black Canon, like a shot across the bow, is a literally show that showcases writers from the African diaspora, the beauty and pain in their work, their struggles,, in a tentative to bring African literature back to America and restore a glory lost due to centuries of migrations.