Prayer to the Masks Summary
Léopold Sédar Senghor

Prayer to the Masks Summary

Over the course of his long career as a writer, philosopher, and statesman, the Senegalese poet Léopold Sédar Senghor has inspired countless young writers throughout the French-speaking world. Along with Aimé Cesaire and Léon Damas, he founded the négritude movement, which argued that the black people of colonial Africa and the Caribbean should take pride in their African roots and find in their native...

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