Intellectual Of Electrical Engineering The Negritude

Intellectual to electrical engineering The Negritude By the end of the 19th century, most of Africans were living under some form of European colonial domination. The history of Africa and its Diaspora was dismissed as insignificant at best, inexistent at worse. Black cultures were ridiculed, stereotyped, and scorned. So the concept of Negritude emerged as the expression of a revolt against the historical situation of French colonialism and racism. Negritude was both a literary and ideological movement led by French-speaking black writers and intellectuals. The movement is marked by its rejection of European colonization and its role in the African diaspora, pride in â€Å"blackness† and traditional African values and culture. The negritude movement was inspired by the Harlem renaissance writers and thinkers but still different to the Black panters mouvment in many point such as the use of violence. The negritude founders’ Aimà © Cà ©saire from Martinique, Là ©opold Sà ©dar Senghor from Senegal and Là ©on-Gontran Damas from French Guiana ( met in Paris in 1931) have to define themselves against a world which leaves no room for who and what they are because they are black folks in a world where universal seems to naturally mean white. Thus, the Negritude or the self-affirmation of black peoples was an answer to the question: what are we in this white world? Indeed, all of the three founders was colonial subject because they all came from French colonies, and being colonial subjects meant