Aimé Césaire -France- (1913-2008)
Aimé Césaire is a universalist poet, a committed playwright and a determined essayist, and French politician from Martinique. An anti-colonialist, Césaire becomes president of the Martinican Students’ Association in 1934 and founded the journal l’Etudiant Noir. He was also one of the founders of Negritude, and the magazine Présence Africaine. Mayor of Fort-de-France until 2001, he died in 2008, leaving massive writings.
