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    <body><![CDATA[This was a required text for a class I took this past semester, Introduction to African Studies. The author, Aime Cesaire, is known in Africa and France for his moving poetry, but he was also a politician. <br/><br/>Born and raised in Martinique, a Caribbean island that was then a colony of France...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/742627">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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