By Rene Wadlow
The writer is President of the Association of World Citizens, and author of ‘Aime Cesaire: (1913 - 2008) A Black Orpheus’.
GENEVA (IDN) – Aimé Césaire, whose birth anniversary we note on June 26, was a Martinique poet and political figure, a cultural bridge builder between the West Indies, Europe and Africa. A poet, teacher, and political figure, he had been mayor of the capital city, Fort-de-France for 56 years from 1945 to 2001, and a member of the French Parliament without a break from 1945 to 1993.