Aimé Césaire: "The violence of Fanon was that of justice, of purity. His revolt was ethical, and his approach of generosity" • Information Africa Kirinapost

On 17 April 2008 the immense Aimé Césaire disappeared. This 17th anniversary coincided with the release, at this time in the cinemas, of the biopic dedicated to Frantz Fanon. At the death in December 1961, of this other iconic anti-colonialist figure, which he described as "a soldier of the Universal", the founding father of the Negritude, had made his funeral eulogy. Frantz Fanon died. We had known him for a long month, but against all reason, …