Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor

I love balance with life. Where something stands, Achebe once noted, something else will stand beside it. I’m a researcher, a professor of medicine, a public health scientist and one focused on sustaining evidence based interventions in resource limited settings. It’s my head.

I am also a mother, a wife, Onyelo’s Isi-baby, a sister, a grant writer, a storyteller, a dreamer, all of which connect to my heart. The longest distance you will ever take like Airhihenbuwa always mentions is the journey from your head to your heart and for the past four years on this blog I have been taking that journey in sterling ways.

We begin with unveiling our approach to emotional creativity in culturally compelling ways, showing how if you ask questions you will never miss your way, not when you know you are lions, the ones the story has been waiting for all this time. We begin as eyes not satisfied with lagoons not when there are oceans. We begin not just knowing but owning our stories as even when birds are up in the skies, their minds are always on the ground.

And this ground is pruned, primed and prepared to show how we live a life steeped in stories, a life that functions in the new, the authentic, the lived experiences that is always not in benefit to us alone but everyone.

Join us as we unveil our first book, Bright Star, which reminds all of us that stars are not just in the skies but within us.