Tag: public health
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Keep this grace, so amazing!
Finally, this day of grace, so amazing, has arrived. This day will forever be etched in my memory now. Not because of what I get to call myself from today, A full Professor, but more so for the untenable reality I molded for myself, reduced to manageable, transforming essence, my way, now my knowing so…
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Keep LIGHT festival and your creation story!
Our ancestors are our first audience. Christell Roach reminded me of this yesterday. They have stories long forgotten and must be told by us their legacy that remain. So here is my attempt with that. I have tried to understand my creation story. Tried to know on whose shoulders I stand. My father’s side has…
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Keep Light!
Welcome to LIGHT. Welcome to the transformative force we call LIGHT. Welcome to its flame Welcome to its fire Welcome to its ray Welcome to its shine Welcome to its spark Welcome to its utter brilliance, Welcome to its radiant reflection Welcome simply to a day we hope to clarify that the public in a…
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Keep at it, win or lose!
I had a conversation with my mother in-law yesterday. We were talking about work and why I keep getting carried away with one grant after the other. Most of them are also not successful. In other words, you may be carried away with work and still have nothing to show for it. I heard myself…
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Keep walking!
There’ll be red sand. Red stoneless sand will line all the roads you see. But still, keep walking. The distant paths will blend to red and orange and red again. You’ll drop to your knees to feel their reddish nature. The roads ahead will lay bare, but for footsteps. Hurried steps. Hushful legs. Bristling through…
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Keep all your invisible inks!
The images you have of me. Mother, researcher, doing work in far away places. All of them are true. But those that are invisible. Everything hidden, under, and in between the lines like Toni Morrison’s invisible ink, are the bones that keep me tall and erect. One day, I will leave you hoping to see…
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Keep ambition with global health!
Ambition to me is tied to what Ngugi wa Thiongo once described as a ‘quest for relevance.’ It is a search for a liberating perspective within which to see ourselves clearly in relationship to ourselves and to the other selves in the universe. He would go on to suggest that this question depends on the…
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Keep Osodieme or a word now gone due to cervical cancer!
Her story, like many, are untold. Her pain, unknown. Her cervix, unforgettable. But her death, free. Think of the depths she took. Think of the blood she hid. Think of the control she fought. Then think of the words unspoken. Lusting for life, she only spoke to friends. Insisting her cervix was a private affair.…
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Keep nothing for youth without youth!
I have taken plenty short trips in life. But few are as unforgettable as the past 4 days in Lagos. Imagine arriving to blue skies. No soon after we arrived, even after all the chaos we encountered at the airport, I arrived to skies perfect and blue. I entered Lagos too with clarity. Day after…
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Keep leading!
To lead, when one has never led, is courageous. Risky and daring, but with courage. To see it’s outcomes, it’s possibilities, so rich, is divine. To know that I lead this, keeps me on my knees. I am nothing but the grace of God and so full of thanks today for the risk, for daring…
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Keep young people!
April 8th The scene was full of brilliance. Young people answering to their names. They see their light. They know their season too. This is it. See them rise, past all expected. Entering their destiny without error. Standing in rooms they own. Full of grace for all they know. Blooming on their own, like a…
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Keep knowing that which is in you is lit for them!
Call it dismissal. Call it ignorance. Call it visible invisibility. Call it being black and female in academia too. But know that your straight up sharp, single handled ignorance of my light, whatever you choose to call it, will not provoke this fire burning within. Not when we are legions. We are not bent or…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 