On May 4, 1978, Senegalese scholar and activist Alioune Diop died. Diop founded Présence Africaine, a Paris-based journal and publishing house that became a cornerstone of Black intellectual and literary life in the 20th century. Through his work, Diop nurtured and connected African, Caribbean, and African American writers such as Aimé Césaire, Léopold Senghor, and Frantz Fanon. Présence Africaine helped catalyze Negritude, Pan-Africanism, and anti-colonial discourse, forging a literary and political bridge across the Black world. His contributions remain vital to global Black cultural history.
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