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AYESHA KAIKAI: I’M 13 – WITH LUXURIOUS DREAMS
My name is Ayesha Alexis Kaikai. I am 13 years old, born on June 23 2005 to Jemillatu Lewally-Stober and Abubakar Kaikai. I live in Freetown, Sierra Leone with my mother and sister. In my spare time I love to read, sketch, listen to music and dance or just relax. At 7, I dreamt of having my own business. By the time I turned 12 years old, I knew exactly the type of business that I wanted to run. Someday I hope to have my own kind of Bath and Body works- a luxury brand- My own , shea inspired business. My growing business is called Kai Luxury! Kai Luxury…
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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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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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ASMAA JAMES ON HER LIFE AS A JOURNALIST, SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR , PHILANTHROPIST, WIFE & MOTHER
Asmaa James is an award-winning female radio broadcaster with over 18 years of radio broadcast experience in post conflict Sierra Leone. Her passion and interests include upholding and promoting independent media platforms, creating safe spaces for diverse voices, positions and interests with the aim of promoting an active citizenry, whilst strengthening democratic governance. Due to the numerous violations of rights, gender-based violence and inherent structural and cultural issues of representation facing women and girls she is constantly faced with in her radio programs she founded the ASMAA JAMES FOUNDATION (AJF) to promote teenage sexual reproductive health and rights, with the objective of raising awareness, mobilizing women and girls to advocate…
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MEET ‘ THE QUEENS’ OF FOOTBALL IN SIERRA LEONE
Since 2004, The Mogbwemo Queens Football Club (the “Queens”) has attracted girls who dare to be different. This growing female football club made of 33 players is based in Imperi Chiefdom, Bonthe District, Sierra Leone. The girls draw their history from a unique background and like to think of themselves as a resilient bunch of girls regardless of background, who are supportive of each other; on and off pitch. Women and girls from all around the world are fighting for equal rights and opportunities. Sierra Leone is not any different. The challenge of education, teenage insecurities, and the need for mentoring lurks in every community. In their case it…
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YENIVA SISAY: WALKS US THROUGH THE POWER OF EDUCATION AND LEARNING
Yeniva Sisay (M.A. Ed) is a value creator and change agent, who is passionate about the development and transformation of Africa. In 2007 Yeniva relocated to her ancestral home Sierra Leone, with a vision to develop the next generation of Sierra Leonean leaders, innovators, and change-makers. It was then that she founded EXCEL Sierra Leone; an educational organization that provides academic enrichment, character and leadership development to senior secondary school students in Sierra Leone. She is a master in instructional leadership and education consulting, with an emphasis on building and developing human capital in the ‘African context’. Over the last decade, as a trained and qualified teacher, a mentor and coach, Yeniva has…
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MURIEL SAMUELS: MASTERING TECHNIQUES TO LOOK GOOD FROM THE INSIDE- OUT
Muriel Valentina is a foodie, a natural foods enthusiast , a trained holistic nutritionist and a health-supportive chef. She is the CEO of ETON Foods, a Food and Nutrition business that educates, trains and consults with individuals, groups and businesses on easy, enjoyable methods for tasty and healthy-eating. ‘Food and eating have always occupied a significant portion of my waking thoughts and memories .Yet through mainstream education, I absorbed many inaccuracies and mis-informations that I incorporated into my life. There’s this funny thing about information. You have to be exposed to new information about a subject to recognise how much you don’t know. I was exposed and immediately felt that discomfort of…
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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…
