Abstract: This write-up takes a cursory look at negritude, a literary movement and an ideology among the French-speaking black writers and intellectual society both in France’s colonies in Africa and the Carribbean, in the 1930s and how this French literary ideology permeates the works of Anglophone African poets. It examines the background and function of this Pan-African movement and how Anglophone African poets espouse this ideology poetically. Negritude forms part of the protest literature of Africa. This piece selects poems from a total of ten (10) Anglophone African poets-Wole Soyinka, David Rubadiri, David Diop, Dennis Brutus, Kwesi Brew, Lenrie Peters, Abioseh Nicol, Leopold Sedar Senghor, Christopher Okigbo and Dennis Osadebe. In each poem, excerpts which portray negritude are identified and summarily explained. From this study, it is abundantly obvious that negritude has been widely imbibed by Anglophone African writers, particularly of poetry. The paper underscores the fact that Negritude is one of the major underlying themes of poetryin Anglophone African poetics.
Keywords: Anglophone African writers, negritude.
Title: A Study of Negritude in Anglophone African Poetry
Author: JUSTINE BAKUURO
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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