Aimé Césaire
He is widely known for his "Negritude Agonistes", having collaborated closely with the Negritude founders, Léon Damas, Léopold Sédar Senghor and Aimé Césaire to document their works and thoughts. In "The Beggars’ Pursuit" he retells their personal lives in Paris circa 1935, their foundation of the Negritude movement and their activities at the time of the creation of "L’Etudiant Noir," the publication in which Negritude saw first light. He was Damas’s sounding board while Damas was composing his last collection of poems, "Mine de Riens." Filostrat organized Damas’s funeral in Washington, D.C., and carried the ashes to Martinique for the eulogy by Aimé Césaire.