The founding fathers of Négritude are well known: Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor and Léon Damas. But would this movement have existed at all without the Nardals? The men have rarely mentioned the influence of the sisters Paulette, Jane and Andrée Nardal, even though they were central figures in the intellectual Black community in 1920s Paris and developed theories on Black consciousness and its awakening.
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Die Nardal-Schwestern. Fotograf unbekannt, courtesy Catherine Bigon
In the film *Les Sœurs Nardal, les oubliées de la Négritude* (The Nardal Sisters, the Forgotten Figures of Négritude, 2022), Léa Mormin-Chauvac and Marie-Christine Gambart shed light on their pioneering role in laying the foundations for Black consciousness and the Négritude movement. In the film, as well as in the book *Les sœurs Nardal: À l’avant-garde de la cause noire* (The Nardal Sisters: At the Forefront of the Black Liberation Struggle), Mormin-Chauvac traces their life journeys, from Fort-de-France to Paris, as well as to England and the USA – where Paulette served as a delegate to the United Nations. Both works help to honour the sisters’ feminist and anti-racist activism.
- Les Sœurs Nardal, les oubliées de la Négritude (The Nardal Sisters, the Forgotten Figures of Négritude)
- Directed by Léa Mormin-Chauvac and Marie-Christine Gambart, 2022, France, 52’, in English.
- Discussion in French with simultaneous interpretation into English, German and French, as well as live subtitles in English
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November 2026
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