JEUNE (Jean-Louis).
Les Créoles en Orient. Drame en cinq actes.
EXCEEDINGLY RARE
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.
