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<h4>Title: ODE TO MOTHER TONGUE<br>
Editor: BRIGITTE POIRSON &; KUKOGHO IRUESIRI SAMSON<br>
Genre: POETRY<br>
No. of Pages: 36<br>
Year: 2020</h4>
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<h5 style="text-align: center;">“What can define a place, a culture, the human spirit better than the ingenious genius of a mother tongue? Our mother tongues are our most precious assets, a personal AND global inalienable wealth.”</h5>
<h5 style="text-align: center;">– Brigitte Poirson</h5>
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<p style="text-align: right;">These poems are the <a href="https://www.wrr.ng/news/bppc-june-july-2020-winner/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">top 20 poems</a> of the June/July 2020 edition of the <a href="https://www.wrr.ng/csr/bppc/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">BRIGITTE POIRSON POETRY CONTEST (BPPC)</a>. Poets featured in this edition include the following: Olowo Qudus Opeyemi, Ude Vivian Chidimma, Abah Abah Oyagaba, <em data-rich-text-format-boundary="true">Jacob Aondonengen, Olaitan Junaid, Peter Columba Itanka, Wale Olaogun, Nnadi Samuel, Goto Emmanuel, and Ayobami Kayode Tijani Ah’mad.</em></p>
<p style="text-align: right;">The BPPC is a monthly writing contest aimed at rewarding the under-appreciated talent of young Nigerian poets.</p>
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