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nEgritude[neg´ritOOd´´, –tyOOd] Pronunciation Key, a literary movement on the part of French-speaking African and Caribbean writers who lived in Paris during the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. Adherents of nEgritude included Leopold SEdar Senghor, LEon Damas, and AimE CEsaire, who is said to have coined the term. Characteristic of nEgritude are a denunciation of Europe's devastation of Africa, a decrying of the coldness and stiffness of Western culture and its lack of the humane qualities found in African cultures, and an assertion of the glories and truths of African history, beliefs, and traditions.
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