“…Du Bois and held in New York, Paris, and London, only one of sixty (mainly male) delegates to this colloquium came from the Ca rib be an: from Martinique. 64 Many of the papers delivered emphasized an overarching Black unity in cultural expression, and they all celebrated traditional "African" expression as opposed to specific African cultures. They linked Africa and its diaspora directly, presupposing a unifying Black identity that transcended difference (and which was implicitly distinct from the continent's Arab inhabitants).…”