Return to My Native Land

''The undisputed masterpiece of négritude and a poetic milestone of anti-colonialism'' Guardian

''We shall speak. We shall sing. We shall shout.''

This blazing autobiographical poem by the founder of the négritude movement became a rallying cry for decolonisation when it appeared in 1939. Following one man''s return from Europe to his homeland of Martinique, it is a reckoning with the trauma of slav...