As I was preparing for this, I was moving with utmost intention to rise above what’s already mainstream i.e policies, or advanced leadership pipelines. Because for me, the most impactful stages began much earlier. I grew up in a beautiful village (which I am very attached to to date),but in a traditional setting where whispers […]

When my mother delivered her third girl, a relative was dispatched to the hospital to check if it was a boy this time. When the person went back to report to my grandmother, it is reported that she said, “There is no child there, just another ogwang.” Ogwang, in the tongue of our people, is […]