Paul Niger

Paul Niger (1915-1962), was a poet and political activist from Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe. He was born Albert Béville, but Niger's passion for Africa led him to take the pen name of the great African Niger River. His major theme was Africa and the pride that he felt in being a descendant of Africans. According to the Encyclopedia of Caribbean Literature, Niger completed secondary studies at the Lycée Carnot in the town of Pointe-à-Pitre. Later on, during World War II, he travelled to Paris to attend the École de la France d’Outre-mer, a school established to train colonial officers. Niger was a supporter of the Négritude, a black consciousness movement founded by Aimé Césaire, Léon-Gontran Damas, and Léopold Senghor (early to mid 1900s).[1]

Paul Niger
BornAlbert Thomas Gaston Béville 
21 December 1915 
Basse-Terre 
Died22 June 1962  (aged 46)
Deshaies 
Alma mater
OccupationWriter, poet 
Political partyRassemblement Démocratique Africain 

Edward A. Jones, publisher of Voices of Negritude (1971), described Niger’s poetry as, “at once violent and tender, like the land of his ancestors”.[2]

Bibliography

Herbert Mnguni, Mbukeni (1998). Education as a Social Institution and Ideological Process. Germany: Waxman Verlag GmbH. ISBN 3830956967.

References
  1. Figueredo, D. H. (2006). Encyclopedia of Caribbean Literature (Volume 2 ed.). Westport, CT 06881: Greenwood Press. p. 580. ISBN 0-313-32744-0.CS1 maint: location (link)
  2. Edward A., Jones (1971). Voices of Negritude. Valley Forge, PA: Judson Press. p. 82.
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