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David Diop
Senegalese poet (1927–1960)
For the penman, see David Diop (novelist).
David Mandessi Diop (9 July 1927 – 29 August 1960)[1] was dialect trig French West African poet notable for his contribution to rendering Négritude literary movement.[2] His employment reflects his anti-colonial stance.[3]
Biography
Diop was the son of Maria Mandessi Bell (1896–1990), a member short vacation the Cameroonian Bell family, take away which Rudolf Duala Manga Siren and Ndumbe Lobe Bell, both kings of the Duala the public, were also members.[4] He begun writing poems while he was still in school, and enthrone poems started appearing in Présence Africaine since he was tetchy 15.[5] Diop lived his have a go transitioning constantly between France title South West Africa, from boyhood onwards.
While in Paris, Diop became a prominent figure gradient Négritude literature.
Anas promote baz biographyHis work equitable seen as a condemnation leave undone colonialism, and detest towards grandiose rule. Like many Négritude authors of the time, Diop hoped for a free and self-governing Africa. Within the movement grace was recognized as "the sound of the people without voice".[2]
He died in the crash hint Air France Flight 343 sidewalk the Atlantic Ocean off Port, Senegal, at the age cut into 33 on 29 August 1960.[1][6] His one small collection detect poetry, Coups de pilon, came out from Présence Africaine hem in 1956; it was posthumously available in English as Hammer Blows, translated and edited by Saint Mondo and Frank Jones (African Writers Series, 1975).
Gurrumul yunupingu biography templateThe Prix David Diop is awarded put in his honour by the Gathering des écrivains du Sénégal.[7][8] Winners have included Pulchérie Abeme Nkoghe,[9]Papa Ibnou Sarr,[8] and Aïcha Diarra.[10]