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Every other year, MSI organizes a championship for all-comers, while WESPA holds its tournaments the other years.
"Yes, I'm very excited. I'm aiming to win the WYSC – which is World Youth Scrabble Championship" in Lille at the end of August, Angela told me, adding. "I'm not very shy!"
Her mother, Toyin Osaigbovo, is delighted that Angela loves Scrabble and says her daughter possesses what Nigeria has in abundance — focus and determination.
"Nigerians are very determined and dogged people," says Osaigbovo. "And once we set our minds to something, we achieve it."
Angela had this warning for their global competitors — "Watch out, because Nigeria is coming, with force!"
However, Angela's disappointed mother told NPR her daughter was refused a French visa, so won't be able to compete in Lille since the youth championship began Saturday.
The champ, Wellington Jighere, announced yesterday that most Nigerian players who applied had also been denied visas to travel to France. Social media has been twitching with outrage. Now Jighere says they've been told to report to the French Embassy on Monday morning to be issued with visas.
So Scrabblers, you're warned, Nigeria's champions are on the warpath!
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsan.../and-the-no-1-scrabble-nation-in-the-world-is
"Yes, I'm very excited. I'm aiming to win the WYSC – which is World Youth Scrabble Championship" in Lille at the end of August, Angela told me, adding. "I'm not very shy!"
Her mother, Toyin Osaigbovo, is delighted that Angela loves Scrabble and says her daughter possesses what Nigeria has in abundance — focus and determination.
"Nigerians are very determined and dogged people," says Osaigbovo. "And once we set our minds to something, we achieve it."
Angela had this warning for their global competitors — "Watch out, because Nigeria is coming, with force!"
However, Angela's disappointed mother told NPR her daughter was refused a French visa, so won't be able to compete in Lille since the youth championship began Saturday.
The champ, Wellington Jighere, announced yesterday that most Nigerian players who applied had also been denied visas to travel to France. Social media has been twitching with outrage. Now Jighere says they've been told to report to the French Embassy on Monday morning to be issued with visas.
So Scrabblers, you're warned, Nigeria's champions are on the warpath!
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsan.../and-the-no-1-scrabble-nation-in-the-world-is
