## 'Black Africa' and 'Caribbean Africa'  
The transatlantic corridor - that route which for centuries set thousands of captured Africans on a ruinous course from their continent to unknown places in the Indies, a route of loss and survival, destruction and resurrection, a graveyard for the ancestors, and a route of possibilities for the descendants that was the route taken in 1976 by one of new Africa's progenitors, President Léopold Sédar Senghor, to the land of the New World's genesis, Haiti. Senghor arrived in Port-au-Prince on 17 February, his final and most anticipated stop on a tour of the Francophone Caribbean. Encomiums of the meeting of the twain were abundant. The Senegalese press treated the visit as the 'long-awaited meeting between Black Africa and Caribbean Africa'.  
Senghor was ecstatic to acknowledge the influence of his Haitian forebears, particularly Haiti's most distinguished man of letters, Jean Price-Mars, on the intellectual development of modern Africa. 'Haiti represents for us Senegalese the most militant [emissaries] of Négritude.'(Le Nouvelliste, 18 February 1976, p. 1). Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda visited Haiti in April of the previous year. Haiti's victory against Europe's great powers made Haitians the greatest examples of African success outside the continent. 'I have felt', Senghor asserted, 'vibrating with force the umbilical cord which the centuries of distance have connected again'  
(Ibid.). Haitian President for Life, Jean-Claude Duvalier returned the sentiment, likening the enthusiastic reception for Senghor by Haitians to 'receiving a parent whose renown reflects the pride of our origins'(Ibid.).