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GROW WITH VAFIE KONNEH: SIERRA LEONE’S BUDDING PHARMACEUTICAL GENIUS
Google Education in Africa and it may unveil a tirade of long discussions with strings of endless negative words such a poverty, lack of access, aid and inequality. For years in developing countries, it’s the ultimate dream for parents to offer their children educational opportunities elsewhere. It is most often conceived as the formula to ensure that one’s child becomes better at whatever they choose to become. Very often we would hear of the exploits of academic excellence celebrated in the media, leaving a trail of adulation and perhaps more important to us, an avenue for other people to be inspired. What we celebrate as overnight success is often dotted with…
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THE SPOTLIGHT IS ON MAGENDA MOIGUAH: THE LADY BOSS WITH THE SMALL CHOPS
In a very modern world where women’s rights are human rights, we often downplay the strides that humans take regardless of their gender to do what they love, what they enjoy and perhaps more logically what puts food on the table. Many of us desire the life portrayed in famous sitcoms, or as played out in Netflix series and reality shows. We keep desiring what appears to be the beautiful life – led by celebrities. Ever so often within the process of adulation, what we fail to recognize and learn from is the trailer of their everyday lives that hosts ‘the behind the scenes’. This could very well be the…





