The Municipality of Verson announced that the house of the first Senegalese president, poet, member of the Académie Française, and négritude philosopher, Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906-2001) in Verson, northwest France, will be open to public visits.
“The municipality has become the official owner of Senghor’s house, garden and furniture as of July 7, in addition to around 25 m³ of handwritten archives, in accordance with the will of Colette Senghor, the second wife of the Senegalese politician. The finalization of inheritance documents required two years and a half,” Marie-Hélène Brioul, deputy mayor of Verson, told Agence France Press (AFP).
