...Rebecca Wolff [email protected] Copyright © 2022 by Nka Publications 2022 Assembling 106 Nka Journal of Contemporary African Art 50 May 2022 DOI 10.1215/10757163-9729162 © 2022 by Nka Publications Pan-Africanism in Melvin Edward s Homage to the Poet Léon Gontran Damas Rebecca...

... and Black ciance, and enter the domain of thi s north of personalit y. He met th e Seneg alese Leop old Seda r heavy rain s and occ asiona l mists, whose fruits• Seng ho r and th e Guya nese Leon-Gontran Damas, chestnuts, apricots, and terebinth man goes-are forming the inseparable tr io of Neg...

... the black subject, Wiley Césaire from Martinique, Léon Damas from overturned what he called “the history of Western Guiana, and Léopold Senghor of Senegal—pub- European white men in positions of dominance.”3 elished Black Th Student in 1935, an anthology of This critical approach to visualizing...

... their only crime was to defend their Caribbean identity and culture against Vichy oppression and Western capitalism. We would remember here that McKay influenced Aimé Césaire, Léon Damas, and Léopold Sédar Senghor; Césaire had read McKay s novel Banjo and used the word Negritude from it. Césaire, who first...

..., no matter what was going on. size they were, they were really poorly informed about what Damas Nwoko did Children in Paradise, which was a art was and what it can be in terms of visual art. drama with music—in Europe you would say “opera,” but it The real art movement was bigger than all of us...