Youth Olympics: Sandrine Zohou wins Kalama gold in Dakar
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Le Soleil
Sandrine Zohou, 28, a Togolese national living in France, won the gold medal in the Kalama eloquence competition at the final held at the Daniel Sorano national theatre. The competition, run by the AFD and Eloquentia, had started with 100 candidates before selecting 10 finalists for five duels.
Sandrine Zohou, 28, a Togolese national living in France, won the final of the Kalama eloquence competition at the Daniel Sorano national theatre in Dakar. She prevailed after five duels on themes linked to sport and society, according to Le Soleil.
The competition, run by the French Development Agency (AFD) and Eloquentia as part of the "Speech, an Olympic discipline" project, had started with 100 candidates, then 50 semi-finalists and 10 finalists. Senegal's Youssoupha Gueye finished second and Alice Perdriel Vaissière, 18, third, while Irène Mendy, a Senegalese journalism student, did not make the podium but received an Olympic medal, according to Le Soleil.
The ten finalists, aged 18 to 28, were split equally between young people living in France and in Senegal. The project aims to train ten young people to carry a message of international solidarity, according to Le Soleil.
