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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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NARNIA DAYCARE: YOUR EARLY LEARNING ADVENTURE
Narnia comprises of a daycare focused on caregiving and learning opportunities for the early ages; between three months and three years.This early childhood learning center is based in Freetown, Sierra Leone. They are positioned to create a lasting desire to explore learning opportunities for the children they cater to. They believe that with the right care, love and affection backed with an access to educational opportunities post birth,…
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AJARA MARIE’S SECRETS TO BUILDING A SUSTAINABLE BRAND
Ajara Marie is marketing executive and a rising business mogul with an in depth experience in Community & Youth Development, Events Management & PR, Communications and Marketing, Training and Capacity building, Clinical Services and Partnership development in Sierra Leone and abroad. She has successfully created her own brand and managed for the past nine (9) years. She is the CEO of Women Mean Business, a company that provides branding, marketing and PR to entrepreneurs as well as workshops and event for females who want to start or grow their brands and businesses. At Ariana Diaries we know that 2019 has been crowned as the year of collaborations. Forward thinking entrepreneurs…
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TAMU THOMAS SHARES ON HOW TO LIVE THREE SIXTY
Three Sixty is a wellness lifestyle brand aimed at women in their late 30’s and 40’s. Tamu Thomas created the brand as a response to her own emotional and physical situation. At the age of 40, and after years of compromising her health, joy and pleasure to meet the demands of her career and role as a mother. She realised that feeling emotional and being depleted physically was not a prerequisite for a good life. As she slowed down and stripped back the layers to try and understand why she had allowed herself to become so burnt out, she realised something important. She had held onto internalised beliefs which, related…
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NELAO NENGOLA’S MISSION IS TO TRANSFORM YOUR LIFE FROM THE INSIDE-OUT
Life is a strict master, offering only two choices; it takes great wisdom and understanding to acquire this truth. Choice one: is to love and the other is to die. Do you love yourself enough to know which path you are treading? We have been following CEO’s who have chosen to live their truth and in return, they have carved out paths that are building up others from the inside-out. Nelao Nengola is a wellness consultant, entrepreneur and blogger. She went from the lows of severe depression, self-pity and divorce to making a choice, of living her best life. She has a Bachelor’s degree in health management and a certification…
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THE FEMME COLLECTIVE SHOWS US WHAT V STANDS FOR!
You are not a mistake. You are not a problem to be solved. But you won’t discover this until you are willing to stop banging your head against the wall of shaming and caging and fearing yourself. ” ― Geneen Roth V is for Victorious V is for Valiant V is for Valid V is for Valuable V is for Venerable V is Vivacious V is Voluptuous V is for Vagina Tonight, Freetown will be on fire with poetry, spoken word and candid experience sharing as Femme Collective hosts the V-Monologue in Sierra Leone for the very first time! ABOUT THE TRAILBLAZERS Femme Collective is a new platform that seeks…
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JOANNE OJI-CHUKWU: TALKS FASHION-SENSE, PASSION AND SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING
Joanne Oji- Chukwu It is said that before 2020 new jobs , that do not exist, will rise up to meet the growing needs of millennials. We are proud forerunners of this trend, with careers, that bring solutions to problems from the tech fields to the internet. Joanne Oji-Chukwu, is a lawyer, prosecutor and an online entrepreneur/influencer. Her day job is with a government agency where she works as a lawyer. In 2015 Joanne had an experience, that launched her into entrepreneurship. She had a mishap with her wedding dress three days to the wedding, that was when she realized that her wedding dress was totally different from her expectations. So she…
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BEHIND THE SCENES WITH AJARA MARIE: CEO WOMEN MEAN BUSINESS
Ajara Marie Bomah is a child of God, a go-getter, trend setter, dreamer, mom, sister, partner and friend. She complements this professionally as a marketing and communications executive and a rising business mogul. With over 15 years of experience, Ajara specializes in diaspora engagement, development and investment in Africa with a critical focus on women in business. She is a humanitarian that works to change the lives of young people, especially girls in Africa. She is intent on teaching them how to be advocates, who channel their voices and gifts to create positive change. With a Masters in Social Work and a plethora of career experiences in social service…
