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Aime’ Fernand David Cesaire, poet, essayist, author and politician, who had been a major theoretician of the African struggles against colonialism and colonization and Negritude, died on this day in Martinique in 2008 at the ripe old age of 94.

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Frederick August Wilson, playwright, poet, and essayist won his second Pulitzer Prize for his play Piano Lesson on this day in 1990.