When we think of leadership, we tend to think of the leaders within our communities, ranging from politicians to clergy, sporting personalities to entrepreneurs, university professors, doctors, nurses to heads of departments, heads of schools, teachers. In this blog post, we will explore the concept of effective leadership mentoring in early childhood education using theRead More…
Wisdom Is The Difference
There is a Buddhist proverb that says “In each loss, there is a gain. As in every gain, there is a loss. And in each ending, there is a new beginning”. The pandemic is teaching us many things about loss, from the loss of life and livelihoods to the loss of freedoms we previously tookRead More…
Africanize : A Journey of Identity
To my 6-year-old self from a peer in the playground: “You have eyes like a frog.” Is it because my eyes are too bulgy? Is it because they are too big? I squint my eyelids to a halfway closed position in the hope that my eyes appear smaller. “Mom, do I look like aRead More…
Hope Lives On The Horizon
In my early teens, I started writing out other people’s poems in longhand in a scrapbook. I would select images from old magazines, cut them out and paste them alongside the poems. After filling up a few scrapbooks, it wasn’t long before I was writing my own poetry. To be honest, my skill as aRead More…
I am because you are
My maternal grandmother, Sophie, constantly reminds me to find her lost parents. Whenever I am in danger of giving up, I sense her presence tugging on my sleeve, checking in over my shoulder, prodding me to keep searching. The last time I saw Sophie was in a dream. It was one of those dreams thatRead More…
