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Césaire's Discourse on Colonialism is an authoritative commentary on the racist and discriminatory attitude of the West towards the Colonial areas. The author comments that Russia of the age of the Soviet was a more positive society, but that it was misled by Stalinist propaganda. He compares the attitude of the French towards Africans with that of the Nazi Germans towards the Jews and likens the two in simple terms. His words on the concept of Négritude and the evolution of what is now called “Black Pride” sets him apart from many Francophone African writers, and secures his place amongst the staunchest speakers for equal rights and the most vocal of the leaders of the independence movements against the 19th century European empires. This is a must-have for all students of colonialism and its after-effects on society. About Aimé Césaire Aimé Fernand David Césaire was a French-speaking poet, writer and politician from Martinique, an island in the Lesser Antilles in the eastern Caribbean Sea. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of the Négritude movement in Francophone literature and wrote extensively on the cultural identity of black Africans in a colonial setting. Césaire served as the mayor of Fort-de-France and as the as President of the Regional Council of Martinique. He also wrote: A Season in the Congo, and several collections of French poetry.