2024-04-13 10:40:39
Far up, on one of the city’s hills, there is a low-rise house. The wide, white building is surrounded by a tiled veranda. “Typically Creole,” says a woman standing in front of it. She is almost 70 and looks much younger; her hair is strictly parted and tied in a braid. Her name is Rimbaud Seymiane. “Just like the writer,” she says and smiles. She grew up in the house next door and actually just wanted to see what happened to it. “I always wanted to know how Aimé Césaire actually lived.”
Aimé Ceśaire was mayor of Fort-de-France, the capital of Martinique, for over half a century. After his death in 2008, the Caribbean island’s airport was named after him. And for a good ten years, his office down in the city has been open to the public as a small museum, and his home upstairs, the Maison d’Aimé Césaire, has monument status. He became famous as a politician, poet and essayist; His homeland, its nature and history have shaped his thinking and writing. And what significance does it have for Martinique today?
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