Before the war, Senghor worked to create an ideological framework that would encompass his French-ness and his African-ness. As time progressed he increasingly became more attached to his African traditions and less interested in assimilation.
Encyclopaedia Africana F
March 20, 2021
FRANTZ FANON
“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are presented with information that works against that belief, the new evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance.”
Encyclopaedia Africana L
February 28, 2021
LÉON-GONTRAN DAMAS
Leon-Gontran Damas was also the first black writer to address the impact of colonization on the psyche of the colonized.
A Encyclopaedia Africana
February 14, 2021
AIME CESAIRE
In Paris, Césaire met Senegalese Léopold Sédar Senghor and French Guiana’s Léon Damas. Together they started the journal L’Etudiant Noir (The Black Student) in 1934 to bring together students from Africa and the West Indies. The journal explored the expression of a Pan-African worldview under colonization.