What's Your Ism
Being a twenty-something year old is one of the most beautiful and yet saddest things. It is the stage where you and your age mates are not equals. Y’all may have the same ages, but it is no longer like… Continue Reading
Liberia
Visionaries or Vision Blurry: Issues with Medical Education and Healthcare in Liberia and Some Solutions
What is wrong with medical education and healthcare in Liberia? Is it not straightforward to realize that the two are directly proportional to each other? Alternatively, we can say there exists a negative or positive correlation. Okay! Enough of my… Continue Reading
A Quest To Teach & Learn With Integrity (4)
Click here to read the first three entries in this series I, II, III As the struggle against academic malpractice continues, one should understand that it does not only affect a single institution, but the entire country. So, today, I… Continue Reading
A Quest To Teach & Learn With Integrity (3)
Read the first two parts here I II Nowadays, of the many students who graduate from high schools and universities, only few can truly prove they deserve what they got. This shows how our teachers have chosen to be the… Continue Reading
The Foreign Exchange Rate Saga
We elect someone that we believed “has a heart for Liberia,” and we are still subjugated to the same repetitive norm of failed leadership and total hardship. Continue Reading
Culture Shock- facing the unexpected ordeal
It all started when the flight I boarded from Morocco landed at JFK International Airport in New York. I was lost for a while; depending on the traveling experience of a man from Liberia whom I met in Casablanca—we talked… Continue Reading
Who Thought This Was A Great Idea?
I practiced humility on the concrete sidewalks of Monrovia before I learned the formal definition on the well-moved lawns at my high school. I was 8. My coach gave me the #14 jersey with the name “Weah” printed on it… Continue Reading
Youths Must Unite to Effect Change
Dear Youths, Often times, we have been overlooked, marginalized, ignored, and forgotten about by the very people who we celebrate and applaud on a daily basis. I just want to remind you all that nothing has changed since we began… Continue Reading
Educating Girls, My Inspiration- Leymah Gbowee
Fast forward to 2011, when I was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. My team sat me down and asked me, “now that you have won the Peace Prize, what do you wish to do? What is the legacy that you want to build?” Straight away, I knew my answer was “GIRLS’ EDUCATION”. I want to create a space where girls and young women, at least the ones who I encounter, no longer have to sleep with any person to pay their tuition fees. And for the last eight years, supporting girls’ education in Liberia through Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa (GPFA) has been my mission Continue Reading
List of Things Google Say About Liberia
They heard about the massacres & had our blood flowing in their teacups. They heard about the massacres & had our blood flowing in their teacups. The world had us in their living rooms & listened to our cries through… Continue Reading
