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  • Négritude

    Négritude (ne.ɡʁi.tyd), noun, French. A literary and political movement begun in 1930s Paris by Black francophone students, among them Aimé Césaire, Léopold Sédar Senghor and Léon-Gontran Damas, that affirmed African heritage against French colonial assimilation. Origin…

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