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Dakar wants to acquire property at auction from its former president Senghor

Senegal has announced that it wants to acquire property belonging to Léopold Sédar Senghor, which must be auctioned in France, to “preserve the memory and heritage” of its ex-president from 1960 to 1980, in a press release sent Friday to the AFP.

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Dakar wants to acquire property at auction from its former president Senghor

Senegal has announced that it wants to acquire property belonging to Léopold Sédar Senghor, which must be auctioned in France, to “preserve the memory and heritage” of its ex-president from 1960 to 1980, in a press release sent Friday to the AFP. These goods, sold at auction on Saturday in Caen, consist of “jewelry and military decorations of Léopold Sédar Senghor and various” other objects. Rings, bracelets, pendants and watches are cited as part of the collection.

“These lots from the estate of Léopold Sédar Senghor come from an individual and not from the fund bequeathed to the town hall of Verson”, the locality which housed the family home of the wife of the former Senegalese head of state , Colette Senghor. President Macky Sall “asked the Minister of Culture and Historical Heritage (Aliou Sow), in relation with the Senegalese Embassy in Paris, to initiate appropriate discussions with the auctioneer (of the auction) , with a view to allowing the acquisition by the State of Senegal of the objects put up for sale,” indicates a press release from the Ministry of Culture.

Finnish and Saudi objects and coin collections, of value according to the commissioners, will be auctioned at the same time as President Senghor's objects.

Poet and writer, Léopold Sédar Senghor was a champion of Négritude, a movement for the defense of the cultural values ​​of the black world that he founded in the 1930s with the Martinican Aimé Césaire and the Guyanese Léon Gontran Damas. Graduated in French grammar, he was the first African member of the French Academy. He died in 2001 in Verson at the age of 95.

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