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Aime Cesaire (1913-2008) was a Martinican poet, playwright, and politician. He co-founded the influential Negritude movement with Leopold Sedar Senghor. Cesaire's powerful poems, such as 'Return to My Native Land' and 'Soleil cou-coup', expressed rebellion against oppression and celebrated African cultural identity.
"I have a different idea of a universal. It is of a universal rich with all that is particular, rich with all the particulars there are, the deepening of each particular, the coexistence of them all."
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