French colonialism is one of the important issues in African history. Léopold Sedar Senghor, the founder of the Négritude movement, expressed resistance through his works, one of which was the poem, Neigesur Paris(1945), against slavery, oppression, and inferiority carried out by the French.This article discusses criticism of French colonialism in the poem Neigesur Paris(1945) by Léopold Sedar Senghor. This research is a qualitative study using a postcolonial approach with Sub-altern theory

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... ten by GayatriSpivak, Négritude by Léopold Sédar Senghor, and also a structural approach.The findings of this article are criticism towards the construction of French civilization in the postwar period. The critique states that the pardon expressed by the Poet against the French people for the practice of colonization is a weapon to attack back France and show pride of the African identity that is presented through depictions of nature and African tribes.