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David Diop was one of the most promising French West African young poets in the 1950s.

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His short career ended in an air-crash off Dakar in 1960. Diop lived an uprooted life, moving frequently between France and West Africa. While in Paris, Diop joinded the n�gritude literary movement, which championed and celebrated the uniqueness of black experience and heritage.

Diop's work reflects his hatred of colonial rulers and his hope for an independent Africa.

"Africa tell me Africa
Is this you this back that is bent
This back that breaks under the weight of humiliation
This back trembling with red scars
And saying yes to the whip under the midday sun"
(from 'Africa,' in Modern Poetry from Africa, edited by Gerald Moore and Ulli Beier, 1963, p.

58)

David L�on Mand�ssi Diop was born in Bordeaux, France, of a Senegalese father (Mamadou Diop), a skilled worker, and a Cameroonian mother (Maria Mandessi), the daughter of a freed slave, David Mandessi Bell.

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