Léopold Sédar Senghor's seminal essay, " Negritude: A Humanism of the Twentieth Century,
: Senghor defines Negritude as "the sum of the cultural values of the black world". It is not a form of racialism but an affirmation of the "African personality" and a consciousness of the dignity of black culture. negritude a humanism of the twentieth century pdf
For the original French (public domain in some regions due to Césaire’s death in 2008—check your local laws), the French version is widely available as a legal PDF via French national libraries like Gallica (BnF). Léopold Sédar Senghor's seminal essay, " Negritude: A