African poet Senghor's poetry collections "Songs of Shadows" and "Black Sacrifice" (1948) express the author's love for his motherland. He paid great attention to the historical traditions of Africa. His dramatic poem "Shaka" praised the famous Zulu leader Shaka in the first half of the 19th century for unifying the scattered tribes. The collection of poems he edited, "New Selected Poems on Negroes and Malagasy French" (1948), marked the climax of "blackness" poetry creation.