First Sentence

"When Aime Cesaire, Martinique's great poet, wrote in 1939 that he was a solitary black man ensnared in white who scorned the screams of a "white death" he voiced the ideology of Negritude, the concept that "represents profound reaction to the denigration of the African and his culture that marked the [slave era and the] colonial period, and which brought many of the Africans to the psychologically perilous position of questioning the basic values by which they had been taught to live."