Category: stories
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Keep Empowering Women in Leadership: Sharing Experience and Expertise.
I stand here today because of the women who came before me. Women who fought for their voices to be heard, who persevered in the face of adversity, and who paved the way for me to stand on this stage. As Chinua Achebe so eloquently put it, “Women have the insight for survival.” “I think…
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Keep the determination of grass!
I hope we never forget that the world will be what it will be for a long time. Never forget too the determination of the grass to grow despite all the obstacles it faces.
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Keep seeking to last through with light!
We discern the end from the beginning. Many were there from the beginning, hence why the beginning is clear. Notes are written. Visions are vivid and yet the end, for many comes and fades as if the beginning held no clues. Will you fail? Will it be difficult? Of course. But what if we tried,…
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Keep what you know with sustainment
The issue isn’t only that we can’t sustain anything. The issue is that we lack understanding of the people, the lessons, the changes or land what we should nurture as we sustain anything.
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Keep stories of all the ways you survive and sustain your light as you build sustainable systems for health!
How to survive, love, and sustain yourself as a black tenured professor in academic spaces.
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Keep centering sustainment!
I spent the day opening the doors to the source of my being in academic world. I cherish describing myself as a researcher passionate about how to sustain evidence based interventions or programs. I have also read and re-read literature on what this means for the field that sitting in a room full of brilliant…
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Keep love with sustaining anything!
It’s becoming truly clear these days that sustaining anything in a community setting is about integration. Of course it includes the different parts that make up an evidence-based intervention or program, but all these parts for communities limited with resources, need to be integrated into a whole that is greater than the sum of its…
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Keep the end!
We often hope that the end would be the easy, different from the beginning. But even if you sigh for relief, it won’t be easy, the end, and days will be glistening like patches of rain, and nothing would give. Everything would seem like a fast decline but you are standing and still there, and…
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Keep understanding life!
The Igbo people have a popular saying that nothing new happens under the sun. Life is in constant motion and anything that is happening now has happened before and will happen again. We are making jewelry again. This life will bring you back to your beginning when you think of it again. We began jewelry…
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Keep getting up!
I am learning that true, you can blame others for pushing you down, but you have yourself to blame for refusing to get up. September often had me revisiting where I was just 2 years ago. The skies were bleak and I have blamed others including myself for how things ended in the end. I’m…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 