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December 28, 2017

Slavery begins at Home: Impact of the Death of Nigerian Education

“A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy, educated, participatory followership and an educated, morally grounded leadership.” – Chinua Achebe Death of Nigerian Education? Arguably, there are […]
December 22, 2017

Slavery begins at Home: The Despotism of African Gerontocrats

In a continent where 60% of the population is under 24 years old, we sure know how to keep old men in power.  Africa has the […]
November 22, 2017

Lessons from Poor Leadership: Robert Mugabe’s Last days in Zimbabwe

1.  Serve the people, not yourself: You can only push the people so far and for so long.  Mugabe reigned in terror over his country – […]
September 12, 2017

Lada the Leader Shares his Vision

“A leader takes people where they want to go.  A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” – […]
August 30, 2017

Monday Baby

My husband became overly attentive in my third trimester. “Put your feet up,” he’d say. Taking the groceries out of my hands, he’d counsel, “don’t carry […]
August 28, 2017

Lada the Leader takes Charge

Bi baba bá kú, baba lo n’kù (When one father dies, another stands in). – Yoruba proverb “My people of Koko, I greet you. As you know, […]
August 3, 2017

The Cost of Womanizing to Nation-building in Nigeria

“As a man thinks, so is he. As he continues to think, so he remains.” – Napoleon Hill I recently saw a video encouraging wives to […]
July 28, 2017

True Test of Integrity

July 25, 2017

Lada the Leader has a Vision

“Heroes are not giant statues framed against a red sky. They are people who say: This is my community, and it is my responsibility to make […]
July 5, 2017

Put the haters on mute

By definition, a hater is someone who dislikes a specific person or thing; a very critical person.  Haters come in various forms – friends, frienemies, real […]
June 27, 2017

Less than a day?

I was wowed listening to Josh Kaufman’s TEDxTalk titled, “The First 20 hours: How to Learn Anything.” He argues that it only takes 20 hours to […]
June 21, 2017

Embrace Change

Shina and Mara were good friends. They opened a radio repair shop in their village and thrived for years.  Then, Shina noticed that technology was changing.  Their […]
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