Aimé Césaire

Martinican writer, poet and politician (1913–2008)

Négritude (from French "nègre" and "-itude" to denote a condition that can be translated as "Blackness"; ) is a framework of critique and literary theory, mainly developed by francophone intellectuals, writers, politicians, and visual artists in the African diaspora during the 1930s, aimed at raising and cultivating "black consciousness" across Africa and its diaspora. The progenitors of Négritude included the Martinican poet Aimé Césaire, Abdoulaye Sadji, Léopold Sédar Senghor (the first President of Senegal), and Léon Damas of French Guiana. Négritude intellectuals disavowed colonialism, rac

Airport in Martinique

Paris métro station

Martiniquan writer (1915–1966)

thesis that governments that develop repressive techniques to control colonial territories will eventually deploy those same techniques domestically against their own citizens, the concept originates with Aimé Césaire

political party in Martinique

Martinican playwright

town hall and theatre in Fort-de-France, Martinique, France