The French forced us to seek the essence of Negritude when they enforced their policy of assimilation and thus deepened our despair; we had become aware within ourselves that assimilation was a failure; we could assimilate mathematics or the French language, but we could never strip off our black skins nor root out our black souls.
Celebrating Leopold Senghor’s birthday with 10 of his greatest quotes
Francis Akhalbey October 09, 2020