Aimé Césaire (born 1913)
Became Mayor of Fort-de-France in Martinique, the Caribbean country where he was born.
He is also famous as a poet. From his long poem, Return to My Native Land:
No race has all the beauty, intelligence and strength There is room for all the meeting-places of victory We know now That the sun moves round our earth lighting the piece of land that we alone have chosen
