In tribute to Léopold Sédar Senghor, Édouard Maunick coordinated UNESCO's publication of Présence Senghor, a collection of 90 poems selected to celebrate the ninetieth birthday of the Senegalese poet and president. The journey from Dakar celebrates his mixed blood:
sonore / le chemin pêle-mêle Tambacounda / Sangomar / Podor / et Sangalkam / sonore / Sebikotane / récitation pour mémoire du temps présent / complice / pour valider mon sang métis [Sonorous path / Haphazardly Sonorous Tambacounda / Sangomar / Podor / and / Sangalkam / Sebikotane / Recitation for the record Time / present/complicit / To validate my mixed blood] (Joubert, 2009, p. 77).  
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Finally, Sedley Richard Assonne, a leading urban poet drawing inspiration from Baudelaire, Tagore, Senghor and old Tamil religious texts, personifies Mauritian mixed-race poetry. In Les Salines, dedicated to the neighbourhood of Port Louis where he was born, he describes his Indian, African and European descent:  
Everything always brings me back to the Salines / I know every corner / The exact place where friendship grows / In the Western cemetery, only witnesses/the sleepers of the other bank / prayed for me at the foot of Amina Bibi / and between stags and tortoises / I explored the blossoming garden / Robert Edward Hart, dear voice fallen silent / I was born a poet by liberating a jabberwocky / Leaving the everyday mess for the freedom of the sky / I had the black of Africa on my skin / and in my words the sweetness of honey.