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Lamine Diakhate

Together with Aimé Césaire and Alioune Diop he was one of the five members of the editorial committee of Éditions Présence Africaine in Paris.

Lamine Diakhate (born September 16, 1928, in Saint-Louis, Senegal - died 1987) was an author, poet and literary critic of the négritude school and has served his country as a politician and diplomat.

As a literary critic, Diakhate promoted ideas that had originally been formulated, or expressed, by Aimé Césaire, Léon-Gontran Damas, and Léopold Sédar Senghor.



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