African Renaissance: Why the Battle for a Better Africa Starts With Your Thinking

The African Renaissance starts when you fix your thinking. African Renaissance Why the Battle for a Better Africa Starts With Your Thinking

When we look at Western countries, envy and anger often collide within us.

Envy because we wish we’d been born under winter snow, where quality of life is high, opportunities are bountiful, and systems actually work. And anger because we resent being here instead—in Africa, under the heat of the Sahara—where life feels backwards, a constant struggle to move forward, with uncertainty slowly draining hope out of us.

Still, many of us fail to be aware or maybe don't see it relevant to remember that the West wasn't always "Advanced” or enviable.

A Year To Grok: Dick David’s Living Eulogy [On Being 28]

Groking your life makes you more you. A Year To Grok Dick David's Living Eulogy [On Being 28]

This felt like the fastest year of my life so far. It genuinely felt like this was still part of last year. At a point, I couldn't tell what happened this year from what happened last year.

While my last year's eulogy ended in what felt like a divine script, this year felt like a violent ripping apart of that script by indifferent reality.

Nwankwo Henry Eziefule: What It Really Takes To Become a UK Commonwealth Scholar

The real prize isn’t the scholarship. It’s you. Nwankwo Henry Eziefule What It Really Takes To Become a UK Commonwealth Scholar

In 2014, a young boy stared at his JAMB result: 210. It wasn’t enough to study Medicine at his dream university. And for most people, that would have been the end of the story. But for Nwankwo Henry Eziefule, it was just the beginning. What follows is Henry’s story — a sincere, detailed account of what it really took to get the UK Commonwealth Scholarship, in his own words.