This movement also saw the rise of Négritude, which is a literary and
ideological movement, developed by French black
intellectuals, writers, and politicians in France in the 1930s. Its founders
included the future Senegalese president Léopold Sédar Senghor, poet Aime Césaire, and the French Guianese Leon Damas. The word négritude derives from the French
word "Nègre" and
literally means "negro-ness." This word was used as a positive term to express the wonders
of being black, and the black identity.