Aimé Césaire Jacques Alexis et Richard Wright -The Sorbonne, September 1956.

Aimé Césaire Jacques Alexis et Richard Wright -The Sorbonne, September 1956.

Africa, Sub-Saharan Civilization Congresses
African Americans
African Americans Congresses
Black people
Black people Congresses
Civilization
Conference papers and proceedings
Noirs Congrès
Noirs américains Congrès
Sub-Saharan Africa

The First International Congress of Black Writers and Artists took place in 1956 in Paris thanks to the vision and leadership of Senegalese Professor Alioune Diop, one of the founders of Présence Africaine, which was, and continues to be, a quarterly magazine and then a publishing house supporting the works of individuals from the African Diaspora. Other participants in the congress included Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Richard Wright, Franz Fanon, Jean Price-Mars, Josephine Baker, and Pablo Picasso, who illustrated the conference poster.

Paris : Presence Africaine,

1956

French

Paris, France

The Congress of Black Writers and Artists

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