African Young Brains

✨ CALL FOR YOUNG LEADERS ✨

Are you passionate about youth development, leadership, and building impactful communities across campuses and beyond? 🚀
Do you want to contribute to identifying and supporting young Africans especially final year undergraduates through structure, strategy, and service?

Here’s an opportunity to be part of the African Young Brains (AYB) community in any of the following capacities:
📍 Campus Team Lead
📍 Community & Programs Lead
📍 Events / Programs Director
📍 Personal Assistant / VIP Team Lead
📍 HR & Training Team Lead
📍 Strategy Team Lead
📍 Volunteer Team Lead
📍 Sponsorship & Partnerships Team Lead

👉 Apply here: https://bit.ly/AYBTeamLeads
🗓 Deadline: February 7, 2026

You're invited

Think about this....

Happy new year to you!

Meet Our Guest Speakers @ African Young Brains'Leadership Cohort I from August - September, 2020.

Dear Leaders and Professionals,

You are invited to Maiden Virtual sessions of the African Young Brains' Leadership Training- Cohort I.

Register for the session here http://bit.ly/AYBLtCohort

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about the sessions and the link for joining the training; live!

Dear friends,

We are glad to inform you that African Young Brains commenced a Leadership Training titled "AYB Leadership Training Cohort" this month of August, 2020 with the maximum number of participants for AYB LT Cohort being 50.

The first set of participants or Cohort I team are already in a WhatsApp group and will attend virtual classes. They will complete the AYB LT Cohort I training by September ending.

Find below the link for you to share with young leaders and emerging professionals who may be interested in African Young Brains' Leadership Training Cohort:

http://bit.ly/AYBLTCohort

The deadline for submission is August 29, 2020.

Thanks you and God bless you!.

WHEN GOD IS WRITING YOUR STORY✒️, NO MAN CAN WRITE YOU OFF!

By Gbenga Adebambo

"At any given moment, you have the power to say, "This is not how my story will end"-Anonymous

Don’t define people by where they are, you never know where God is taking them to.

In one day, God can change your story. You are not finished when men finish with you, you are ONLY finished when God finishes with you.

One Spring, sometime before the Civil War and over hundred and fifty years ago, a young and handsome man named James was employed by a rich American farmer, Worthy Taylor, in his prosperous Ohio farm to work on his farm and also assist him in other household chores. The farmer knew nothing much about the boy except that his name was James, but he gave him a job.

James spent the winter cutting stove wood, bringing in the cows, and making himself generally useful. He ate in the kitchen and slept in the hayloft. Before the summer was over, James had fallen in love with Taylor's daughter; though the master liked the boy and his work, he was compelled to dispense with his services because James had fallen irredeemably in love with his beautiful daughter.

The farmer hated and abhorred the idea of his daughter marrying a mere farm-hand coupled with the fact that he had no money, no name, and very poor prospects.

Thirty-five years passed before Taylor one day pulled down his farmstead to make way for a new one. On the rafters above the hayloft, he discovered that his former help had carved his full name. His name? James A. Garfield. He was the then President of the United States!

James Garfield eventually became the 20th President of the United States of America. A man who was thought to be a nonentity and unworthy of a rich man’s daughter eventually became the most powerful man on earth.

Taylor lost the opportunity of becoming the father-in-law to the President of the United States, but more sympathetically, he made his daughter lose forever the opportunity of ever becoming the First Lady of the United States.

If Worthy Taylor had not rejected James Garfield, maybe he would have lived all his life as a farmer. The rejection gave him the impetus needed to chart a new direction that guided him to the White House. The rejected stone eventually became the head of a corner!

Sometimes, the greatest thing that will ever happen to some of us is rejection! The reason has been that most times, rejection is simply redirection. When people continually reject you, it is because God is redirecting you.

One of the core secrets of great people is in their ability to handle and overcome rejection without harboring any form of bitterness. Don’t ever give in to people’s rejection, rather ask God to redirect you to your place of destiny fulfilment.

Alexander Graham Bell said, “When one door closes, another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us”. God sometimes allow men to reject us so that we don’t settle for less than what he has for us, because those that settle for less don’t get the best out of life.

Whether in relationships or career, we must have a healthy approach to rejection which is to see it as redirection.

Where you are coming from is not what defines you, but rather where you are going in life. You must endeavour in life to ensure that where you are going in life does not in any way look like where you are coming from.

No matter what you are going through in life, you can rise above your background. You may succeed when others give up on you, but you will never succeed if you give up on yourself.

Mel Robbins said, “There will always be someone who can’t see your worth. Don’t let it be you.” Whatever becomes of you is your responsibility.

Don’t ever allow other people’s definition to determine your destination. No matter where you are from, no matter what you are passing through, no matter how obscure you think you are, no matter your limitation, you can rise beyond your background.

Don't EVER write any man off. Don't EVER look down on people's struggle. Don’t ever conclude on a man who God is writing his story!

Gbenga Adebambo is an active member of Leaders4Leaders. He's passionate about the next generation of young leaders and emerging professionals of African decent. He's accessible and a mentor to many!