29/09/2022
A must read story
In 1934, Dr.Kwame Nkrumah applied to the Lincoln University for an admission to study. One year past and he had not received an offer or a response.
He then wrote an emergency letter to the Dean of Students at the University in 1935 reminding him of his request for an admission to study at the university.
The university wrote back to him asking him to write a brief story of his life and his reasons for wanting to study at the school.
The following is the summary of what Nkrumah wrote to the university:
“I neither know where to begin nor where to end because I feel the story of my life has not been one of achievements.
“Furthermore, I have not been anxious to tell people of what may have been accomplished by me.
“In truth, the burden of my life can be summarized into a single line in "The Memoriam," quoted by Cecil Rhodes; so much to do, so little done.
“In all things, I have held myself to but one ambition and that is to make necessary arrangements to continue my education in a university in the United States of America, that I may be better prepared to serve my fellowman.”
13/06/2021
Combined Brilliant Quotes to push you today tomorrow and rest of your life
THE PARADOX OF TIME
01. We live in times where we see many humans, but not enough humanity;*
02. We live in times where the rich has more rooms than children and the poor has more children than rooms.*
03. We live in times where Smart Phones bring you closer to those who are far, but distance you from those who are close;*
04. We live in times where a single mother can look after 10 children, but 10 children can't look after a single mother;*
05. We live in times where the rich walk miles to digest food, while the poor walk miles to obtain food;*
06. We live in times where our contact lists are huge, but our relationships are poor;*
07. We live in times where our possessions are more, but our contentment is less;*
08. We live in times where we know how to earn a good living, but somehow forget how to live a good life;*
09 We live in times where many know the price of everything, but the value of nothing;*
10 We live in time when People get Power but can't empower others.
Indeed, we live in a paradoxical world.
Lovely sunday❤
Yours Detective Jane Mugoh
God help us all to see beyond the ordinary.
01/06/2019
As President, he lowered his salary to only $450 a month and limited his possessions to a car, four bikes, three guitars, a fridge and a broken freezer. A motorcyclist himself, he formed an all-women motorcycle personal guard. He required public servants to wear a traditional tunic, woven from Burkinabe cotton and sewn by Burkinabe craftsmen. He was known for jogging unaccompanied through Ouagadougou in his track suit and posing in his tailored military fatigues, with his mother-of-pearl pistol. When asked why he didn’t want his portrait hung in public places, as was the norm for other African leaders, Sankara replied “There are seven million Thomas Sankaras.”
Sankara rejected the idea of foreign aid, saying that “he who feeds you, controls you.” Wheat production rose in just three years from 1700 kg per hectare to 3800 kg per hectare, making the country food self-sufficient. He spoke eloquently in forums like the Organization of African Unity against continued neo-colonialist pe*******on of Africa through Western trade and finance. He called for a united front of African nations to repudiate their foreign debt. He argued that the poor and exploited did not have an obligation to repay money to the rich and exploiting.
In Ouagadougou, Sankara converted the army’s provisioning store into a state-owned supermarket open to everyone (the first supermarket in the country). He forced civil servants to pay one month’s salary to public projects.He refused to use the air conditioning in his office on the grounds that such luxury was not available to anyone but a handful of Burkinabes.
He sold off the government fleet of Mercedes cars and made the Renault 5 (the cheapest car sold in Burkina Faso at that time) the official service car of the ministers. He reduced the salaries of all public servants, including his own, and forbade the use of government chauffeurs and 1st class airline tickets. He redistributed land from the feudal landlords and gave it directly to the peasants.
Sankara was assassinated by agents of imperialism in coup plot orchestrated by France on October 15, 1987.
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13/04/2017
In our culture, many of us idealize love. We see it as some lofty cure-all for all life's problems. Our movies and our stories and our history all celebrate it as life's ultimate goal, the final solution for all our pain and struggle. And because we idealize love, we overestimate it. As a result our relationship pay a price.
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