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Poem: We Started From Bottom, Why Are We Still Here?

Poem: We Started From Bottom, Why Are We Still Here?

Aimé Fernand David Césaire (26 June 1913 – 17 April 2008, pictured) was a Francophone poet, author, and politician from Martinique. He was “one of the founders of the Négritude movement in Francophone literature.” He wrote such works as “A Tempest,” a response to Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest,” and “Discourse on Colonialism,” an essay describing the…

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