recounting lives of rebellion

Henry David Thoreau würdigte ihn ebenso wie Wladimir Putin

“ Cord Riechelmann

Essays in Idleness is a constantly surprising work that ranges across the spectrum of human experience

Return to My Native Land toxic swamp recounting lives of rebellionThis blazing autobiographical poem by the founder of the ngritude movement became a rallying cry for decolonisation when it appeared in 1939. Following one man's return from Europe to his homeland of Martinique, it is a reckoning with the trauma of slavery and exploitation, and a triumphant anthem for Black identity, one which reclaims and remakes language itself.