Discuss the poem "Black Woman" as a negritudinal poem

The negritude literary movement originated in the 1930s in Paris as a protest against French colonialism, and one of its leading figures was Léopold Sédar Senghor. Negritude literature set out to celebrate African culture and to reaffirm the pride of being of African heritage.
Senghor's poem "Black Woman" is a typical poem of the negritude literary movement in that it celebrates the beauty of Africa. Senghor personifies Africa as a beautiful woman whose very "form is beauty." The personification of Africa is also gentle ("the gentleness of your hands") and has a sonorous voice ("Your solemn contralto voice"). In the sixth stanza, the beauty of nature is described in terms one might ordinarily use to describe a lover. Senghor describes its "mouth making lyrical my mouth" and the "savannah shuddering beneath the East Wind's / eager caresses."
The personification of Africa is also presented as being proud, reflecting the idea prominent in Negritude literature that one should be proud to be African. Senghor implies this pride through the repetition of the line, "Naked woman, black woman." Africa is proud to stand naked, and the source of that pride is the color of her skin, the "colour which is life."