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Olalekan Daniel Kehinde is the first-place winner of the FEBRUARY / MARCH 2021 edition of the bi-monthly Brigitte Poirson Poetry Contest (BPPC). Akor Agada Nathaniel and Olowo Qudus Opeyemi emerge runner-ups of the contest which awards ₦15,000, ₦10,000, and ₦5,000 for the first, second and third places respectively.
Kehinde, a serial finalist of the BPPC, emerged as the overall winner for his poem ‘ARE OUR ANCESTORS FOREIGNERS’. The poem delivers scathing religious criticism with admirable poetic finesse. In second place is ‘THE WORLD MUST HAVE GONE MAD’, an equally critical poem by another serial BPPC finalist, Akor Agada Nathaniel. ‘METAMORPHOSIS’, a rich and melancholic appraisal of cultural evolution by Olowo Qudus Opeyemi, completes the top 3 of the edition.
The other poets in the top 10 of this edition are Ayodele Ayooluwatomiwa Rachel, Sabur Adedokun, Ibikunle Aisha, Adeniran Joseph, Akor Agada Nathaniel, and Husani Abdulrahman.
The TOP 20 poems of the edition are published in a chapbook titled ‘ANCESTRAL MUSINGS‘.
