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On November 9, the morning after Trump was elected President, I shared this on my Facebook: “In order to give one’s life a meaning, one must have the ability to imagine and fight for a life beyond one’s own existence. This election is a consequential election that will affect America beyond the Trump mandate. The
An episode happened to me today and I believe it partially illustrates why it is so hard to fight against racial discrimination in the U.S: I went to Five guys with a friend. After arrival, we got off the car and headed toward their dining room. I opened the door and I soon was told
It begs to ask: what is the point of making it to the mountain top if your loved one cannot benefit from it? When I move to Senegal to attend Hann Mariste’s boarding school, one of the top schools in the nation, I had to take an exam to be formally accepted. I did, but I
In times of atrocity, humanity weeps together. Today is one of those days. New Zealand’s darkest hour has become humanity’s worst moment. Today, a father is not coming back home. A mother won’t see her son again. A student will never obtain their college diploma. Families are forever broken. This is a demonic act, but
Je m’arrêtai une dernière fois à la porte et la regardai une fois de plus. Mais, ce regard était singulier et monitoire. Il combinait l’attention et la gratitude. J’y pensais déjà. Je n’allais probablement plus la revoir de son vivant. Aujourd’hui, cette probabilité est devenue une certitude. Hadja Asmaou, ma grande-mère maternelle, est partie à
When I came back from home in 2017, I posted these words on my wall so that I can see them every morning before going out and evening before going to bed: “Economic capacity dictates political power. Unless we take control of the economies in our respective countries, our kids will be slaves of foreigners
Welcome to the United States of America; a place that feel more like home than my native land at times. In 2018, the first time for about twelve years, I left Boston for more than 45 days. It is strange and exciting to be back after 5 ½ months. The U.S has been my adoptive
Kaffal woh na djeyaal : Le bien commun et partagé n’est ni une richesse, ni une propriété. Je l’entends souvent ici. Les sages le disent sans élaborer là-dessus. Cette expression est pourtant l’articulation d’une vérité profonde. Chez nous, l’héritage devient toujours une source de désintégration. Elle pousse souvent à la séparation individuelle et collective. Il suffit tout
Hier, j’étais passé voir Hadja Zeinab Koumanthio Diallo, romancière, écrivaine et poétesse, née et résidante à Labé. Hadja a été la première femme à avoir édité un livre de poésie en Guinée et a environ une quinzaine d’ouvrages à son compte d’après Wikipédia. Connue comme la reine de la poésie guinéenne, elle a dernièrement rajouté
The sad thing about most strategists is how their imagination is constrained by the structure of their industry. They fail to see that competitive advantage is the product of an innovative and creative strategy. Having been inculcated with the same information from the damn same institutions or books, they have lost their sense of creativity;
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