Wednesday, 8 January 2014
Children of Africa, Knowledge is our lost resource! Let Us dig and find it!
Just like we have campaigns to fight all the biological diseases
attacking us, we need to wake up and smell the coffee as Africans, we
are a mine field of brains that have been untapped for generation
because we were attacked by a rampant disease of the mind called
ignorance. How do we expect to move our societies forward if it's is
still a viable tale when our friends say "if you want to hide a secret
from an African then hide it in a book!" for as long as this saying has a
ring of truth to it, I say we will still have a long way to go. Oral
tradition worked well for us but it's time to let it go. How many
brilliant minds die with their knowledge locked up! I say the ground has
stolen from us for a while now but enough is enough! As Africans we
need to stop running from reading and writing. We need to cultivate a
generation of readers and writers so that instead of storing our
knowledge in the graves with the dead, atleast we have them archived in
the books. We need to appreciate that the best legacy is when you left
something to help the next generation not when you died with all those
great brains! Do something my dear woman or man of valor! It starts with
you. Knowledge is wealth and sharing it is a big investment. So read
and write much more than before! I need to read your book soon! Send me
your copy I promise you I will buy it!
Ignorance is a big Roadblock when it comes to health issues in mama Africa
Ignorance
is the biggest mountain we are facing when it comes to health issues
here in mama Africa. If we take a look at how many innocent children are
born infected with HIV/Aids today; yet today global health
organizations have provided services to stop mother to child
transmission. It is with great vigilance that am focusing my energy
towards senstising the communities especially the rural communities
about these health opportunities and am sending out acry to all of you
to join this campaign to see that we have no more babies born with
HIV/Aids in Africa by 2016. "Let us call it, "HIV/Aids free babies by
2016 campaign" it's really easy, all about advocacy and health
information sharing especially with the youth, poor teenagers in the
basket of un-planned teenage pregnancies. No mother should go through
the pain of watching their innocent child come into this world already
infected and no child deserves to come into this world infected in this
day and Era where mother to child transmission can be stopped. Let us
all as concerned community leaders take it upon ourselves to see that we
send the word out there, especially to the rural communities. When we
take a good look at our population, we will find that most of our people
are in the rural areas and are relegated to the back yards of these
modern media health campaigns. Let's do some grassroot sensetisations,
door to door activities, community notice boards, local dramas with
messages, mobile cinemas to mention but afew, let us just get out there
and get the health knowledge to our people until its public knowledge to
the very last man.
Wednesday, 1 January 2014
Why women of valor like us have been unemployed and how we can break this pattern!
Our patriarchal societies where men are the
decision-makers and hold positions
of power and prestige, and have the power to define reality and
common situations have played a big role in rendering us as women unemployed. Of
course the business world and the labor market have been labeled a man’s world
for centuries. You as a woman you have to fight double hard to join the pack. For
as long as we still have these patriarchal mindsets, stereo types, negative cultural
norms and beliefs governing our minds in this day and age, no matter how much
education you have you will still fall prey to the vagaries of being a woman. We
need to stop playing coy as women and get real when we go out there to join the
business world. As a woman you have to be exceptional to automatically get that
job otherwise honey the man even much younger and less experienced will snatch
that job from you. It is your mandate as a woman to work hard to break through
this wall. Chisel your skills and make sure that every day your brand as a
person is re-invented and enrich your mind through reading. Be a source of innovations
and I assure you no matter your gender you will be one to die for. There are a few matriarchal societies where
women are in central decision-making positions such as community leaders, where
they play a central role in the community and in the society. In the few
matriarchal societies that exist today it has been observed that the word rape
does not exist, as women's rights are central in these societies; sexuality is
practiced freely and women are given space to express their creativity and
participate in society. We can cause our society to have a balance. If as women
we sit back and just make noise about our rights, write great philosophies about
how we need empowerment, debate, and advocate and sensitize others without
taking physical action in the right direction, the level of unemployment among
women will keep rising. We need to understand that for years men have invested
in fellow men to see that they keep the power positions in our societies. These
negative beliefs, stereo types and patriarchal mindsets have been a large sale
to the extent that even mothers were brain washed enough to believe that their
girl child was less of a person compared to their boy child. It is time now for
us as women to act by deliberately investing in fellow women. We can invest in
each other through mentorship, executive coaching, business training,
motivational talks, network sharing and offering interne ship opportunities to
other women in our thriving organizations. True as women we have natural
factors acting against us but these can be accommodated if we made up for it by
preparing ourselves as unbeatable professionals when we are given an opportunity.
It is time to sell to the world the advantages of matriarchal societies co
existing with patriarchal societies. The balance is really good for our social
economic well being and the harmony we all need to thrive well and beat
unemployment.
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