| FT-60655-13 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Babacar Mbaye | Black Diasporan and West African Francophone Intellectuals, 1914-1966 | 6/1/2013 - 7/31/2013 | $6,000.00 | Babacar | | Mbaye | | | | Kent State University | Kent | OH | 44242-0001 | USA | 2013 | African American Studies | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 6000 | 0 | 6000 | 0 |
My book explores the connections between a selected group of black diasporan and West African Francophone intellectuals whose published and (or) archived writings allow us to study their little-known involvement in major historical forces such as World War I, World War II, the 1955 Bandung Conference, the 1956 Congress of Black Writers in Paris, and the 1966 World Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar. Studying these writings, I trace the roots of black diasporan and West African Francophone solidarity against colonialism and racism between 1914 and 1966. Focusing on the African Americans (W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Mercer Cook), Caribbeans (Marcus Garvey and Aime Cesaire), and Francophone West Africans (the Senegalese Blaise Diagne, Leopold S. Senghor, and Alioune Diop, the Beninese Kojo T. Houenou, and the Ivorian Bernard Dadie), I show how the historical experiences tested the resilience of the black thinkers against oppression and their ties with one another. |