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Developing Your Advocacy Plan
Monitoring Your Advocacy Activities
Soaring to Global Heights
Using Video to Raise Social Awareness
What is there to be celebrated?
As she gears towards the celebration of her 172 birthday, I mutter, confused to confide in her curse of ceaseless disasters. What is she truly celebrating? Her long but fruitless existence leading her children to beg and bootlick as they crumble at the mercy of exploiters. She stumbled, startled at the impediment placed upon her by so-called colonialism. A complete dissolution to her sovereignty. She claimed to be independent when truly dependency is at the avenue of her already weakened appearance-leading her children skedaddling in search for solace. And I wonder, what is there to be...
My case-study on marriage rituals among Christians in India
During my final year of high school, I had conducted a case study to understand the marriage rituals that took place among certain Christian communities in India - such as the Christians of Kerala, Goa and Mizoram - compared to the marriage rituals among Christians in western countries. The objective of my case study was to highlight the noticeable differences in these marriage rituals among the Christian communities in India as opposed to the Christians living in the west. To begin, a questionnaire was sent out to twenty three respondents belonging to Christian communities in both India as...
A gentle reminder for millennials to be kind
Kindness. An act from deep down in the heart human, without want feedback. In this era, I believe kindness can be fake and ignored. Many people misuse kindness. They know what kindness is, but they don't know how to use it, therefore, there are many people using kindness for gaining popularity and getting a good image. One day, I was doing charity work in my community by giving food and clothes to flood victims. My friend asked me to take a photo of him giving food to a child, which he then posted on Instagram. Later, I asked him why he did that and he answered that he wanted everyone to know...
Migration, diversity, and tolerance in Europe
Words unspoken
Do not be the one to sound the alarm. Do not be the one to ask questions. Do not be the one to say such words. Do not be the one who risks everything for the sake of another. They said. In 1915. In 1932. In 1938. And again in 1975...1994… 1995... 2004… 2016. And again and again and again and again... History is the storyteller that holds all truth, and yet when she speaks, much of mankind closes their ears. Is it that we are too afraid or too selfish? Is it that our own worlds are all too small or too large–– that we are too consumed with ourselves to notice the pain of others, that we are too...
The change you want
As I am short of words and do not know where to start, if you are reading this, I implore you to type the phrase ‘Lazy Youth’ on the Google website. If you are a Nigerian, there is a high probability you can rightly guess the content of the resulting thread. Let’s leave it at that for now. As a Youth Delegate at the 2018 African Youth Conference in Nairobi, Kenya, I watched a screen-play on Jaha Dukureh’s achievement on the topic of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). The documentary titled ‘The Girl Who Said No to FGM’ narrated Jaha’s Dukureh’s journey of triggering the law that abolished the...
A Conclusion For Poverty
The Convention on the Rights of the Child: The children’s version
I want to change how society sees people with disabilities
We participate in order to change the system!
The edge of time, the persistence of imagination
I am not the biggest fan of science. Although it was my favorite subject throughout much of my childhood, a love-hate relationship soon developed during my high school years. I even jokingly labeled myself as “anti-STEM,” much to the dismay of my mother and older sister who are ardent enthusiasts of the field. Although I still believe in the significance of developments under this scholarly discipline, my passion has manifested itself within other fields. One major interest of mine is culture and the forces that shape it, particularly as it relates to the representation of minorities. Being an...
Silence is not an option
How would you feel if a gun was pointed at you for asking for a fair price for bread? How would you feel if you were forced to fight for the necessities that should be given to you as basic human rights in the first place? How would you feel if you were shot down by your own people? The answer to these questions is; we wouldn’t know how it feels. We would not know what it feels like to be in that situation and god forbid no one deserves to know the answers to these questions like our brothers and sisters in Sudan do. But why wouldn’t we know the answers to these questions? There were obviously...