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Just before his country’s encounter with France at the 2026 World Cup, Senegal’s National Assembly President Ousmane Sonko stated that “regardless of the winner, it’s Africa that will have beaten Africa,” a sentiment that reiterated the French National Team’s constitution by African sporting talent. Sonko’s remarks also speak to the domination of the French side […]

My first interpretative encounter with poetry began with Niyi Osundare’s ecopoetics in the poem “Ours to Plough Not to Plunder,” included as one of several works to study for the year’s pre-university exam. But it was William Wordsworth definition of poetry, which I came across in an English lecture on the subject of British Romanticism […]