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UNEARTHING THE ELEMENTS OF ‘THE CHEMISTS’
Passion, creativity, and resilience are the most crucial skills in business. If you’ve got those, you’re ready to embark on the journey.” -Jo Malone, Founder of Jo Malone Let’s get today started with some lights, sounds and fireworks from THE CHEMISTS! When Emeric Elliott, an MBA graduate (from Heriott Watt University in UK) returned to Sierra Leone to manage his father’s printing and photocopying business – Genet and Partners. He was to be a realtor on the side. But in his mind, he was brewing a storm- a reaction that was to be the ‘talk of the town’. He was nurturing an idea, that will not only bring ‘cool people’ together…
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FOLLOWING YOUR PASSION TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Hands up if you took an okada (commercial motorbike) to work this morning. If its per the usual; the rider must have sped beyond limit. Took sharp turns and could barely wait for you to pay. ‘Passenger duya, try for mi’ When was the last time you waited hours to process one small document, at a large government office? Do you remember that one time, you decided to have faith in the fruit lady? What did she do? Sell you a bag of rotten mangoes! Now let’s get real honest, the reason you hate math’s, barely has anything to do with the subject but its presenter- the teacher. That messenger of…
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MEET YAKAMA MANTY JONES- A YOUNG LEADER, INSPIRING PORTFOLIO CAREERS
Yakama Manty Jones is a Sierra Leonean woman with a passion for education and development, both in the personal and economic sense. Having being groomed from an early age by her parents, Sanah Jonhsen Mara and Zaria Amina Mara on the importance of education, she finds everything that has to do with learning and acquiring new knowledge and skills very attractive. So over the years, in the formal education space, she pursued learning with great tenacity. At no point did she ever want to have less than the best possible grade in any subject. So you can imagine how frustrated she was at receiving C grades in arts and crafts.…
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THE IZELIA EXPERIENCE: CELEBRATING AND PROMOTING SIERRA LEONEAN HERITAGE
The IZELIA Experience (TIE) *A 3 Day Gara Tie & Die Fiesta* 5th – 7th April 2019 A beautiful dream became an idea which in turn became a plan. That plan was to be an event that promoted how our past and where we are now as a people can influence and shape what we can be. What better way could there be to do that, other than through how we present ourselves to the world? What better way than through the clothes we wear and how they come to be? The IZELIA Experience celebrates and promotes the true Sierra Leonean heritage using *Gara Tie & Die. The IZELIA Experience…
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ONE WOMAN’S – BIG IDEA: ‘ON THE SPOT WITH STELLA’
Stella Bangura stumbled into media and journalism by chance. She graduated high school with the thought of becoming a lawyer, but somewhere along the line she went through the phase of starting a business rather than going to university. Eventually when she did go to university, she read business administration due to her desire to become an entrepreneur. Before gaining admission into university she started working for an exploration company and then her supervisor encouraged her to consider radio broadcasting. In his opinion she had the personality for it. She decided to try it out, that was when her unexpected journey into the world of media began. …
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5 THINGS TO CONSIDER WHEN CHOOSING A PEDIATRIC DOCTOR IN SIERRA LEONE
`The highest rates of child mortality are still in Sub-Saharan Africa—where 1 in 9 children dies before age five, more than 16 times the average for developed regions (1 in 152). Under-five mortality rate in Africa (per 1,000 live births) declined from 163 in 1990 to 100 in 2011′.-USAID Most statistics around healthcare in Africa borders between two words dire or depressing, all the same we barely give relevance to the truth. Most times we obliterate these facts with trivial issues, that bear no significance to the problems we have to solve as a continent. Maybe this in a way is our coping mechanism, what an interesting way to live. Despite the struggles around child mortality in…
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NINA’S COFFEE: UNWIND WITH SIERRA LEONE’S CUP OF EXCELLENCE
Amazingly some young Sierra Leoneans have stepped up to the clarion call of Mama Sierra Leone in terms of investing into the future. The riches of emerging economies go past minerals and oils, rather it is the ability of humans to look into ways of utilizing their minds vs. natural resources. A great way of doing that is through entrepreneurship, finding or designing solutions to needs through products and services. Sylthea Redwood-Sawyerr studied Electrical Electronics Engineering at the University of Sierra Leone Fourah Bay College with BEng. Honours in 2008 and has challenged herself through the ranks of Information Technology in Sierra Leone. Nevertheless the…
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KATT PENN: FALLING IN LOVE WITH ‘DOWN UNDER’
“Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman Wander-lust is when you decide on booking a one way ticket to Sydney, Australia after visiting Perth a few weeks earlier. Kat Penn was there for a two week excursion, she had travelled with friends from Perth to Exmouth & back. Upon landing in Heathrow on February 7th 2018, she knew she wanted more than snow and dark skies. By the end of the week, she met with a mortgage broker to discuss being a landlord and renting her flat. It took about 5-6 months to complete her new mortgage and secure a new tenant. Once it was…
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10 WAYS TO STAY SANE AND MARRIED AS AN AFRICAN PROFESSIONAL WOMAN
If you are a career woman who desires marriage, make the following quote your guide.If you are an African woman, even this gospel will not guarantee you a ‘happy ever after’ ”When looking for a life partner, my advice to women is date all of them: the bad boys, the cool boys, the commitment-phobic boys, the crazy boys. But do not marry them. The things that make the bad boys sexy do not make them good husbands. When it comes time to settle down, find someone who wants an equal partner. Someone who thinks women should be smart, opinionated and ambitious. Someone who values fairness and expects or, even better, wants to…
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THE NEED FOR NTC SYSTEM OF EDUCATION IN AFRICA
Children are always curious as to why certain things happen. They enjoy making new discoveries and to take on tasks that may seem cumbersome to the adult. Children when encouraged blossom with a multitude of possibilities. A child that is desirous of something will do everything within their power to acquire that toy or snack from the parent or another child. Children do not give up easily; they find ways to keep themselves entertained and happy no matter the limitations of their environment. My work with children had always bordered on creating every day learning experiences that will not only teach these new ways of working but will make them…
