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French Guiana (France)

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Léon-Gontran Damas

Died in 1978

Léon-Gontran Damas was born in Cayenne on 28 March 1912. A pupil at the Lycée Schoelcher in Martinique, he took the philosophy course there with Aimé Césaire, then went to Paris in 1929 to study law and anthropology. In 1935 he founded the review L'Étudiant noir with Césaire and Léopold Sédar Senghor. Deputy for Guiana in the National Assembly until 1951, he then worked for UNESCO, then taught at Howard University in Washington, where he died on 22 January 1978.

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