David Diop
David Mandessi Diop (July 9, 1927 – 1960)[1] was one of the most promising French West African poets known for his contribution to the Négritude literary movement. His work reflects his hatred of colonial rulers and his hope for an independent Africa.[2]
Biography
David Diop was born in Bordeaux, France, of a Senegalese father and a Cameroonian mother. He had his primary education in Senegal. He started writing poems while he was still in school, and his poems started appearing in Présence Africaine since he was just 15.[3] Several of his poems were published in Léopold Senghor's famous anthology, which became a landmark of modern black writing in French.[4] He died in a plane crash, at the age of 33, in 1960.[1] His one small collection of poetry, Coups de pilon, came out from Présence Africaine in 1956; it was posthumously published in English as Hammer Blows, translated and edited by Simon Mpondo and Frank Jones (African Writers Series, 1975).
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "David Diop". Encyclopædia Britannica.
- ↑ "David Diop, France (1927-1960)". University of Florida.
- ↑ Blair 1976, p. 158
- ↑ "David Diop". Retrieved December 16, 2009.
- Blair, Dorothy S. (1976). African literature in French. CUP Archive. ISBN 978-0-521-21195-6.
|