Aimé Césaire Biography

Aimé Césaire biography

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NAME: Aimé Césaire
OCCUPATION: Mayor, Playwright, Poet
BIRTH DATE: June 26, 1913
DEATH DATE: April 17, 2008
EDUCATION: Lycée Louis-le-Grand, École normale supérieure
PLACE OF BIRTH: Basse-Pointe, Martinique, France
PLACE OF DEATH: Fort-de-France, Martinique, France
Full Name: Aimé-Fernand Césaire

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Aimé Césaire was a cofounder (with Léopold Sédar Senghor) of Negritude, an influential movement to restore the cultural identity of black Africans.

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Aimé Césaire was born June 26, 1913, in Basse-Pointe, Martinique. Together with Senghor and others involved in the Negritude movement, Césaire was educated in Paris. In the early 1940s he returned to Martinique and engaged in political action supporting the decolonization of the French colonies of Africa. In 1945 he became mayor of Fort-de-France, and he retained that position until 2001.