An ideological position that holds Black culture to be independent and valid on its own terms; an affirmation of the African cultural heritage WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet

Négritude is a framework of critique and literary theory, developed mainly by francophone intellectuals, writers, and politicians of the African diaspora during the 1930s, aimed at raising and cultivating "Black consciousness" across Africa and its diaspora. Wikipedia

A literary and ideological movement, developed by francophone black intellectuals, writers, and politicians in France in the 1930s by a group that included the future Senegalese President Léopold Sédar Senghor, Martinican poet Aimé Césaire, and the Guianan Léon Damas Wikipedia Disambiguation

Cultural and political movement developed by a francophone African elite Wikidata