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While in Nashville, I visited the Parthenon, which is a replication of the statue of Athena, the goddess of Wisdom, in ancient Greece. In many ways this place reminded of my childhood. Growing up in Guinea, I was an addict of the Knights of the Zodiac, which was a TV show of young people who “had sworn
L’expérience guinéenne était donc une source de fierté, de ferveur et de courage mais l’histoire s’en souviendra comme un échec palpable et pitoyable. La Guinée se précipita spontanément et impulsivement dans l’indépendance et comme l’avait prédit le général de Gaulle, ‘la Guinée en tirera les conséquences’ de cette décision. Sékou Touré et son clan politique du
Je suis peulh et fier de l’être. Mais le renfermement aveugle dans une appartenance ethnique ou culturelle ne doit pas conduire à la stigmatisation de l’autre. La fracture ethnique présente dans de nombreux pays est un produit de l’histoire qui permet de glorifier l’identité pure de l’ethnie en stigmatisant l’autre. Conséquemment, “envahis par le doute et la méfiance,
Deep inside, I know that I could have done more to recruit people who looks like or sounds like me. I could have affected more lives. I could have changed more youths. As a former employee of the Boy scouts, one of my biggest regrets is not having had the bandwidth with all the others competing
Finding one’s purpose requires an understanding of oneself, one’s heritage and most importantly, one’s deepest aspiration. It takes time. It takes reflection. It takes patience. It took me 25 years. My purpose is to inspire and to create opportunities for others. I was born to lay the path for others so that they can live a much more peaceful and meaningful life. Along the way, I might become a writer, a thinker, an essayist, a president, or even an entrepreneur. However, all these affiliations are only a mean to an end(purpose); a mean to empowering or lifting others. My purpose captures my essence and reminds me what is truly important to me. It is a call to action; one that add value to your humanity.
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