Aime Cesaire was responsible in part for coming up with the term "negritude", which is used to show pride in being a black person.
Aime Cesaire’s poetry and plays included a black adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest, and his works have found their way into being studied in France, where his plays have also been performed on stage.
Aime Cesaire received his education in Paris, and it was there that he co-founded a literary review called The Black Student, along with Leopold Senghor.
Aime Cesaire is reported to have once described himself as "negro, negro from the bottom of the sky immemorial".
French President Nicolas Sarkozy has called Aime Cesaire a great humanist, and paying his tribute he said of Aime Cesaire: "As a free and independent spirit, throughout his whole life he embodied the fight for the recognition of his identity and the richness of his African roots."
