Les Créoles en Orient. Drame en cinq actes.

£1,500 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

An unlikely survivor by the Guadeloupean lawyer, Henri Jean-Louis Baghio’o (1874-1958), alias Jean-Louis Jeune. Set in Martinique, Europe, and Turkey, this dramatic piece concerns a group of Creole soldiers fighting on the Dardanelles front during the First World War. The son of a wealthy Black planter, having obtained degrees in literature and law, Baghio’o also studied colonial agriculture. He worked as a lawyer in Basse-Terre and then as a judge in Martinique, becoming the first black magistrate in the French Caribbean. He also held this position in Brazzaville, where he became a pan-African activist. After the Second World War, he campaigned for the independence of the Antilles. Very rare: no copies on OCLC .

• Binding: Hardcover

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