For the First Time
It is hard living in a home where a father does not act as a father, don’t you think so too?
oddFelix is a fan of storytelling and he wrote this. He is a very gifted storyteller and he brings you slowly to the realities of life in a dreaded home with a brutal father.
Diary of a Village Cocoa Girl
Never envy me because I simply don’t look like anything I have been through or my struggles. Oh did you know I sat next to a corpse (young boy) in a Kia to be buried? (story for another day).
When Bloggers & Writers Met in November 2017
Where were you on the 11th of November 2017 when young Bloggers & Writers met in Calabar? Were you at iKapture Networks? Sitting and listening to people speak, and writing about your own self-reflections? Well if you were not at this event last month here’s a recap of what happened.
This is What I Experienced at the Ashoka ChangeMakerXchange
Where do I begin from? Maybe I should begin from the part where Feyi Adanlawo told me “Mirabelle when you’re at Ashoka, live in the present.” Sometimes l live in my future but this time around I decided to truly take off and LIVE IN THE PRESENT. Far away from worries and far away from worrying about free WiFi (I actually worried about this). I loved it! I loved the Ashoka/Robert Bosch Stiftung ChangemakerXChange Dakar retreat. I just really loved it. I came on the first day not knowing what exactly to expect and I wondered what spending a few days with 24+ people would do in my life. I came into Dakar, Senegal late in the evening and arrived Saly at night very tired. In fact I thought I would need 2-days rest but the next day during our first session on connecting with each other, I forgot about…
Global Changemaking Students: Spicy Interview with Jingwa Lesly Grace – Leading Cameroon & Africa
Be the brightest star in the sky and prove the world wrong about women being unable to do great things. Jingwa Kakdeu Lesly-Grace is Tony Elumelu Fellow, YALI alumni and a young Cameroonian changemaker in the Agricultural sector.
Global Changemaking Students: Cecilia Njika an Accounting student with a passion to make Africa Clean
She became more conscious about certain things in life and more outspoken after her SUSI scholarship in the USA. Now she’s an accountant with a desire to Make Africa Clean.
Global Changemaking Students: Let’s Tell You About Ozioma Temple Egemasi the AIESECer
Temple Egemasi is a member of the Calabar Youth Council for Women’s Right and an AIESC member making a difference
Global Changemaking Student: Jaclyn Soller the Wonderful Filipino SAGE Mentor at CSU Chico
What three lessons has traveling taught you?
Go with the flow
Once you hit your lowest, there’s no other way but up
The world is an amazing place
2nd Place Blankpaperz Intern Contest Winner: Abdulai Halidu
Congrats to our 2nd Place Blankpaperz Intern Contest Winner: Abdulai Halidu!
1st Place Winner Blankpaperz Intern Contest: Precious Umo
FOR THE NIGHT IS DARK AND FULL OF TERRORS We toiled in the brightness of the day Under the scorching sun and rain ensuring our hands were busy but clean To make returns to the family we bore but while men slept They trippled our efforts With activities that eyes nor ears could fathom It’s true some of us also toiled the night For the job demanded thus Yet our hands were pure and uncompromising But while men slept They took to their guns and ammunitions Swift as the wind into homes they went For there their businesses laid We conceived and brought forth on the same morning The day which marked an end to our months of discomfort and travail For our rewards we held in our hands Grateful for the pains we went through For on our laps the objects of our joy laid But…
POIGNANT SHADOWS
Nwaogu Chinenye Cynthia is a young aspiring writer who found her voice in writing and believes the written words are the essence of human life.
Global Changemaking Students: Megan Darnell, President of UMKC Enactus Team
How do you juggle school and other activities at the same time?
I don’t sleep much, that’s how! I am involved in many different things: I am a full-time Masters student, I work in the business department of our university, I run my own international business, I am in our Entrepreneurial Scholars program and I am the president of our Enactus team.
All I want is to make this world a better place before I leave it. As for my passion behind traveling, a quote by Saint Augustine may say it best, “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page”. I am not very materialistic, but I do treasure experiences, and those travel experiences let me grow as a person and learn more about the beautiful world around me.
Global Changemaking Students: Aminata Diambo the Creative Senegalese Fashion Designer & Engineering Student
“… pink dresses and skirts, somehow meant that you couldn’t climb trees, or run fast behind the ball or just have fun.”
Amina’s dad shaped her mind into believing that she could be anything she wanted to be.