Abstract
In February 1961, Patrice Lumumba, first prime minister of the independent Congo, was assassinated. This article analyzes the play written five years later by Martinican politician and poet Aimé Césaire about Lumumba’s short political life and sudden death, focusing on the ways in which Césaire recuperated the figure of Lumumba from hostile discourse and transformed him into a martyr, a “poet of action”. Césaire’s gesture, the article argues, is one of transnational anti-colonial solidarity.
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