Louis Thomas Achille

Louis-Thomas Achille (August 31, 1909 – May 11, 1994) was a Martiniquais intellectual, educator and musician. He was an important participant in the Negritude movement, collaborating with his cousins Jane and Paulette Nardal in founding the journal La Revue du Monde Noir. After World War II he settled in Lyon, teaching at the Lycée du Parc. There he founded an English choir, the Parc Glee Glub, which specialised in Negro spirituals.

Life Achille was born on August 31, 1909, in Fort-de-France, the son of Louis Achille, an associate professor at the university. as well as their informally performative atmosphere:

In the 1930s Achille taught French language and literature at Howard University in Washington, D.C., and at the University of Atlanta. From 1943 to 1945 he fought for the Free French Forces.

Achille attended the First Congress of Black Writers and Artists in Paris in 1956. He raised the question there whether Africans called themselves Black, "an expression that, indeed, has been imposed from outside, by the colonizing nations".

He died on May 11, 1994.

Works 'L'Art et le noir', Revue de Monde Noir, No. 2 (December 1932), pp. 28–31 'L'artiste noir et son peuple', Présence africaine, New Series, 16 (Oct-Nov 1957), pp. 32–52 'In Memoriam: Paulette Nardal', Présence africaine 133–134 (1985)