Fighting pollution with poetry in Nigeria
By DW
21 January 2019 |
5:31 am
Can poetry save the planet? A group of students at the University of Lagos thinks it can certainly help! They've set up the Parliament of Poets initiative, using poetry to educate people about the environment.
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