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Césaire critiques specific figures, such as:

Geographer Pierre Gourou, who claimed that tropical climates made non-Europeans incapable of civilization, and

Reverend Tempels, who fabricated a theory suggesting that Congolese people desired enslavement by Belgians.

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Full Summary of the Discourse on Colonialism by Aime Cesaire

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