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Place of Birth: Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, France
About Paul Niger
- Paul Niger (1915-1962), was a poet and political activist from Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe.
- He was born Albert BĂ©ville, but Niger's passion for Africa led him to take the pen name of the great African Niger River.
- His major theme was Africa and the pride that he felt in being a descendant of Africans.
- According to the Encyclopedia of Caribbean Literature, Niger completed secondary studies at the Lycée Carnot in the town of Pointe-à -Pitre.
- Later on, during World War II, he travelled to Paris to attend the École de la France d’Outre-mer, a school established to train colonial officers.
- Niger was a supporter of the Négritude, a black consciousness movement founded by Aimé Césaire, Léon-Gontran Damas, and Léopold Senghor (early to mid 1900’s).Edward A.
- Jones, publisher of Voices of Negritude (1971), described Niger’s poetry as, “at once violent and tender, like the land of his ancestors”.
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