Ushoga Kazi I grew up hearing this saying but i think 2020 is the year I fully understood what it meant. Friendship is WORK — hard work if I may add. 2020 is also the year I figured out that some people I referred to as friends are actually people…

Change Earlier this month, I was fortunate to see Wale Akinyemi (@waleakinyemi) in action; he gave a talk on creating culture change. Although I have read a number of books on the topic, his perspective drove home a simple but key point for me — to change behaviour you have…

My Father. Her Husband. I was daddy’s little girl. I loved my father and my father loved me. He bought my first bra, designer perfume, cellphone, fancy wall art…the works. He’d tell me that he was setting standards for the men I’d love after him. …

I have been challenged to get back to writing. I was (am?) apparently good at it. I clearly didn’t think so, hence my decision to throw in the towel a couple of months ago; okay, not months, years. See, i used to love writing. To me, it was very much…