This Photo of Angelique Kidjo Channels the Poetry of Leopold Senghor

Days ago, in an exciting music-meets-poetry move, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Angelique Kidjo shared this photo of herself, a self-described search for Senegal’s poet-president Leopold Sedar Senghor. One of the continent’s most important intellectuals of the 20th century, Senghor, who passed on in 2001, was a leader of the Negritude movement.

Kidjo is leaning on the railing of the Passerelle Léopold-Sédar-Senghor, a footbridge over the River Seine in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. Formerly called the Passerelle Solférino, or pont de Solférino, the bridge was renamed after Senghor on 9 October 2006, to mark the centenary of his birth. Kidjo captioned the photo: “In Paris tonight, searching for the spirit of the poet Leopold Sedar Senghor.”

Yet it looks like we already found our muse.

So which Seghor poem does this photo remind you of? “I Will Pronounce Your Name”? “Night in Sine”? “In Memoriam”? “Midnight Elegy”?

Good to know that our pre-eminent diva loves the poet we love.