FORT-DE-FRANCE, Martinique (AFP) — French President Nicolas Sarkozy was to join mourners on Sunday at the state funeral of Aime Cesaire, a poet and pioneer of the black pride movement who died at age 94 in Martinique.
Cesaire, revered on his native French Caribbean island of Martinique and elsewhere in the French-speaking world, died in hospital in Fort-de-France on Thursday after being admitted for heart problems.
Click here for background on Cesaire and discussion of his “clash” with Sarkozy about French colonialism from a conversation with Amy Goodman and Prof. Robin Kelley, via Democracy Now!
Obit from Times Online (UK)