Négritude ni fremu ya nadharia ya uhakiki na uandishi iliyostawishwa hasa na waandishi na wanasiasa wa Afrika waliozoea lugha ya Kifaransa na kuishi nje ya bara lao katika miaka ya 1930. Lengo lilikuwa kukuza kati ya Waafrika wote hali ya kujitambua kama watu wa maana kwa kupinga ukoloni na kupigania umoja wa watu wote wenye asili ya Afrika, pengine kwa kutegemea Umarksi. Waanzilishi walikuwa Aimé Césaire kutoka Martinika, Léopold Sédar Senghor (baadaye rais wa kwanza wa Senegal) na Léon Dumas kutoka Guyana ya Kifaransa. Négritude ilichangia uanzishaji wa matapo mbalimbali duniani yaliyotetea Waafrika na haki zao, kama vile: Black Skin, White Masks Black Consciousness Movement Black Surrealism Black Arts Movement Black Power Movement Angolanidade ("Angolan-ness") Authenticité Afro-pessimism Afro-Surrealism Anti Fascism Anti African Négritude is a constructed noun from the 1930s based upon the French word nègre, which, like its English counterpart, was derogatory and had a different meaning from "Black man". The movement's use of the word négritude was a way of re-imagining the word as an emic form of empowerment.