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France bids farewell to black pride poet Aime Cesaire

April 21, 2008

French President Nicolas Sarkozy led thousands of mourners at a state funeral Sunday in Martinique for Aime Cesaire, poet and pioneer of the black pride movement. Revered on his native French Caribbean island and elsewhere in the French-speaking world, Cesaire died aged 94 in hospital in Fort-de-France.