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Dalumuzi Mhlanga is a graduate of Waterford Kamhlaba United World College, an honors high school in Zimbabwe.

In 2010, Dalumuzi founded Lead Us Today, a non-profit organization that conducts leadership and empowerment training with Zimbabwe’s youth. He won the 2011 Forbes magazine College Social Innovator Award Winner, and has presented his goals for Lead Us Today at the 2011 Igniting Innovation Social Entrepreneurship Summit at Harvard University.

In 2012, Dalumuzi was recognized as one of the “Ten Outstanding Young Persons of Zimbabwe” award conferred by Junior Chamber International.

Dalumuzi strongly advocates for three core values for the youth of Zimbabwe to embrace: humility, courage, and curiosity. He believes by taking more risks, we can all contribute to making our world a better place.

Dalumuzi graduated from Harvard in May, 2013, and will teach a graduate school class at Harvard. He is a pragmatic, yet eloquently powerful speaker.

In today's modern age with technological advances, the opportunity to learn is seemingly everywhere. While you can pick up pieces of knowledge by chance and through experience, you ingest the most when you are dedicated and aware of learning. Luckily, you have options to earn degrees in-person, online, or in a hybrid approach.

Jason Li, CEO, is the “Next Teen Tycoon.” In 2013, he won the Vertical Response competition for his online video about his start-up company iReTron.

The business buys used electronics from the public, overhauls them, and resells them. If he can’t sell it, he recycles it. “People send me a lot of things like iPads and calculators,” (Jason said. "Sometimes I can’t pay them because the item is too old, but if I can, I pay them within 48 hours.”

A sophomore at Saratoga High School, Jason won the top award and $4,000 in prize money from a San Francisco-based email, social media, and event-marketing company. VerticalResponse asked teens nationwide to submit videos describing their business idea or company. Online viewers were asked to vote for their top 10 favorites. Business and tech executives, including VerticalResponse CEO Janine Popick, judged the top videos.

Popick gave Jason perfect score, and later commented: “I think iReTron appeals to a large market and has tons of potential. It’s good for business, good for the environment, and good for the end users abroad where there’s still demand for our ’gently used' technology.”

Jason says he has learned a lot about “reCommerce” since starting iReTron a few years ago. “It’s a great way for students to learn about the environment and what we can do to go green,” (he said.

While Jason will admit that iReTron isn’t making a lot of money yet, it’s not losing money, either. “I always give the best price over the competition,” (he said, and added: "My goal for this company is for it to be a multi-million-dollar business by the end of my college years. Everyone has big dreams.”

As part of his win, Jason also got a trip to New York City to attend 2013 TEDxTeen.

Meet the first female African Professor ⤵️

Professor Felicia Adetowun Omolara Ogunsheye (née Banjo) is the first female of many sides. Her story is that of courage and strength. She had passions like a male. A few days ago, we celebrated international women’s day worldwide with the hashtag and I beg to say, Adetowun Ogunsheye should be the one to take the cover page of the celebration as she singly broke so many biases to rise to stardom.

Professor Adetowun Ogunsheye, who is 95years old was born on 5th December 1926 in Benin, Edo State to parents who hailed from Ogun State. She had her secondary education at Queen’s College, Lagos after which she proceeded to Yaba College of Technology in 1946 where she was the only female student in the whole institution. In 1948, she graduated with a diploma from Yaba College of Technology with recognition as the first lady to graduate from the school.

She proceeded to University College, Ibadan(now the University of Ibadan) and from there went to Newnham College, Cambridge University, the United Kingdom to study Geography on scholarship which earned her a Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Arts in 1952 and 1956 respectively. She was the first black woman there as well. Later on, she bagged another Master’s degree in Library Science from Simmons College in Massachusetts, United States of America in 1962.

Returning to Nigeria, she established the Abadina Media Resource Centre Library at the University of Ibadan. Having fulfilled the requirements, she became a professor at the University of Ibadan in 1973. This qualification made her be appointed as the Dean, of the Faculty of Education at the same university which made her the first woman to become a dean in any Nigerian university.

She has served as a consultant to various organisations, some of which is the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (lFLA); the International Association of School Librarianship (IASL); the International Federation of Documentalists (FID); the British Council, the World Bank amongst others.

Talking about awards and recognition, according to Wikipedia, Adetowun received the Ford International Fellow Award in 1961; the Hon. D.L.S. of Simmons College Award in 1969; the Simmons College International Alumnus Award in 1979; the Fulbright Fellowship for Senior African Scholars Award in 1980; the Decade of Women Certificate of Merit for Outstanding Achievement in 1985; Fellow, Nigerian Library Association in 1982 and Nigerian Academy of Education in 1985; Hon. Doctor of Letters (D.Litt.) The University of Maiduguri in 1990; and the International Education Hall of Fame, Nigeria in 2000. In her honour, the University of Ibadan named the female postgraduate hall after her name under the administration of Prof. Abel Idowu Olayinka.

In 1982, Ile-oluji in Ondo State conferred on her the chieftaincy title of Iyalaje of Ile-Oluji. She is also a serial Author of different academic publications in her area of specialization as well as children’s books.

We celebrate her parents who didn’t accept the notion that their investment in a female ward doesn’t count.

Keep leaning to eschew it ignorance.
Ignorance k*lleth!

Mrs. Obama has frequently championed the value of educating girls worldwide and, in 2015, unveiled “Let Girls Learn," a new U.S. initiative to support community-focused girls' education across the globe.

The project will draw on 7,000 Peace Corps volunteers to support hundreds of new community projects that help girls go to school and stay in school.

“Girls are our change-makers -- our future doctors and teachers and entrepreneurs,” the First Lady said at the White House launch. “They’re our dreamers and our visionaries who could change the world as we know it.”

Words from the President of Chile as we celebrate International Women's Day.

Embrace education for ALL!

Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile
During her second non-consecutive term, President Bachelet in 2014 ushered through a far-reaching education reform program that raised the government’s investment in public education.

In her prior role as Executive Director of UN Women, she championed the Fund for Gender Equality, which provides grants to support innovative programs by government agencies and civil society groups to promote equal gender access to quality education.

“We focus on girls' education,” she said, “because it sets them on a path to greater economic opportunities and participation in their societies.”

An educated mind is one of the most valuable resources to have in life.

Babar Ali is a 29-year-old young man from Murshidabad district in West Bengal. When he turned 16, BBC did a feature on him, awarding him the title of the youngest headmaster in the world. He has taught thousands of children at the little school, under a guava tree, which he started when he was merely 9 years old. In fact, at the time when his batchmates were still studying or looking for work, Babar Ali had already occupied a prominent position as the principal teaching and guiding the children in his village for free. His motto in life is to fight poverty through education.

This year Babar is going to complete 20 years of his teaching journey. His school Ananda Siksha Niketan has a majority of female teachers who provide value-based education to children.

“Teaching can never be compared to any other job in the world. I believe a teacher can build a nation and nurture its future citizens. Be it a doctor, engineer or even a scientist each one of them is educated in a classroom. Teachers shoulder a great responsibility. As a teacher in my school, I believe in delivering more of a value-based education teaching children about a positive outlook and a sense of humanity. To be a teacher one needs to look and work beyond professionalism to make the future of the child shine” said Babar

Babar Ali is a source of inspiration not only for teachers but for every single person in the world. His efforts and story teach all of us that once you are determined to reach a certain goal in life you will always yield great results.

A beloved famous quote about education, this simple rhyme illustrates the dynamic possibilities of life and learning outside of the classroom.