Daniel Boukman

Boukman, Daniel (pseud. of Daniel Blérald) (b. 1936). Dramatist, teacher, and journalist from Martinique. Influenced by Fanon, he worked from 1962 in Algeria. Boukman, a critic of négritude from a Marxist standpoint, is best known for a lively polemical play on migration, Les Négriers (1971), later filmed as West Indies by Med Hondo. He has composed several other agitprop pieces and some Creole verses.

— Bridget Jones