Aime Cesaire's mayor deputy, Pierre Alik

Aime Cesaire's mayor deputy, Pierre Aliker delivers a speech during the National Funeral of French Poet Aime Cesaire, on April 20, 2008 in Fort-de-France in the French Caribbean island of Martinique. Cesaire died in the hospital where he had been admitted on April 9. With fellow writers such as Leopold Sedar Senghor from Senegal, Cesaire invented the term "negritude" which he defined as an "affirmation that one is black and proud of it". AFP PHOTO FRANCK FIFE (Photo credit should read FRANCK FIFE/AFP via Getty Images)