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A Negro in Moscow

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From: Black Renaissance
Date: 19971031
Author:Anonymous

A Negro in Moscow

Abraham Hanibal: l'aïeul noir de Pouchkine

{Abraham Hannibal: Pushkin's Black Ancestor}

DIEUDONN�? GNAMMANKOU.

Paris: Présence Africaine, 1996

Why does your wondrous pencil strive

My Moorish profile to elicit?

Your art will help it to survive,

But Mephistopheles will hiss it.

Draw Miss Olenin's face. To serve

His blazing inspiration's duty

The genius should spend his verve

On homage but to youth and beauty.

It is generally known that the great-grandfather of the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin was of African descent. Beyond this fact, however, little else is known ...

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