Introduction While the painful ordeal of slavery and colonization turned the black people of Africa into a nation of exiles and outcasts, the same experience brings about enormous consequences which bind the black people together triggering literary interaction between black writers from different parts of the world. In his attempt to challenge colonial hegemony and promote the colonized sense of identity, the Sudanese/African poet, Mohamed Al-Fayturi is engaged in an intercultural dialogue with his mentor, the African American poet Langston Hughes, in order to reconstruct a history devastated by slavery and imperialism. Rooted in a revolutionary basis, the mutual dialogue between them aims to dismantle colonial narratives about Africa and black people by revising history and rewriting the story of racism and slavery from the viewpoint of the colonized and the oppressed. Carrying the scars of enslavement and hegemony, Langston Hughes and Mohamed Al-Fayturi poetically engage the history of racism and colonization linking the African literary tradition with its counterpart in the United States.
