THE NARDAL SISTERS, THE FORGOTTEN ONES OF THE NEGRITUDE

The mothers of Négritude

Synopsis

The Nardal sisters, Alice, Andrée, Lucy, Cécile, Émilie, and above all Paulette and Jeanne, were seven women of letters, artists and intellectuals from Martinique.

These central figures of the black intelligentsia in Paris in the 1920s theorized about “black consciousness” and its awakening.

Despite their important contribution to the black issue and to the feminine cause, they have been forgotten by history.