Together with Aimé Césaire and Alioune Diop he was one of the five members of the editorial committee of Éditions Présence Africaine in Paris.
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As a literary critic, Diakhate promoted ideas that had originally been formulated, or expressed, by Aimé Césaire, Léon-Gontran Damas, and Léopold Sédar Senghor.
Le Lamentin is the site of Martinique Aimé Césaire International Airport, opened in 1950 and renamed after author and politician Aimé Césaire in 2007.
Aimé Césaire | Reggie Fils-Aime | Paris, je t'aime | Aimé Bonpland | Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry | Lucien Aimé-Blanc | Je t'aime... moi non plus | Jean François Aimé Théophile Philippe Gaudin | Aimé Picquet du Boisguy | Aimé Cotton | Reggie Fils-Aimé | Martinique Aimé Césaire International Airport | Aimé Morot | Aimé Girard | Aimé Argand | Aignan-Aimé Massue |
In 1966, together with Léopold Sédar Senghor he organized the first World Festival of Negro Arts in Dakar in (1er Festival Mondial des Arts Nègres, also called FESMAN); among its many participants were Josephine Baker, Aimé Césaire, Duke Ellington, Langston Hughes and André Malraux).
Jones' work provided an important visual link to Négritude authors including Aimé Césaire, Léon Damas, and Léopold Sédar Senghor.
Located in Le Lamentin, a suburb of the capital Fort-de-France, it was opened in 1950 and renamed in 2007 after author and politician Aimé Césaire.
The magazine published its first issue in November 1947, founded by Alioune Diop a Senegalese-born professor of Philosophy, along with a cast of African, European, and American intellectuals, writers, and social scientists, including Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Alioune Sarr, Richard Wright, Albert Camus, André Gide, Jean-Paul Sartre, Théodore Monod, Georges Balandier and Michel Leiris.