Shades of life

How do you manage facing rejection on the way to your dreams?

Rejection in any way can be disheartening, but when we feel we have no way out, it may seem like the end of our dreams.

Sometimes, when we follow our dreams, things don’t always go as planned. Opportunities are missed, chances are lost, or doors are closed. We feel disheartened and think that our dreams will never come true until we turn around and find that there is another opportunity, a chance of life, waiting for us.

You will face many obstacles on the way to success. Don’t give up when one door closes. Look for other options, and explore what else you can do. Life would have opened another pathway; you just need to find it for yourself.

Don’t lose your mind yet, it’s a fresh year and better still I assure you you’re on track to finding your green pasture.

Hope Alive!

My View

We want a positive scramble for Africa that will be focused on competitive investments in Africa & support for our infrastructural & developmental activities;NOT a scramble for exploiting our resources,Caging us with loans,building military bases & balkanising us into proxies.

“For centuries under Dutch state authority, human dignity was violated in the most horrific way possible,”
“And successive Dutch governments after 1863 failed to adequately see and acknowledge that our slavery past continued to have negative effects and still does. For that I offer the apologies of the Dutch government,”

With the words above, Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of The Netherlands apologized for its role in 250 years of trading in slaves from Africa in a speech at the country’s National Archives in The Hague today, December 19, 2022.

Slavery still haunts us as people of colour. Imagine disemboweling a people for 250 years, killing their leaders, shattering their families, separating friends and cancelling their culture for that period of five to eight generations.
What really could be left still not derailed of the soul of such a people?
How did they manage to remain with any identity and any national self confidence at all?

In some instances, slave owners turned their female slaves into slaves making machines by impregnating them to make children whom they enslaved. Others commanded the sons of these slaves to do the job of horror for them. Such was the barbarism, the vileness and the thickness of the darkness we are talking about.

Imagine millions of people working for your nation for free. Imagine how you could actually concentrate on other things like science and philosophy and forms and structures of government. Imagine the advantage, the headstart, the mileage it gives you to have free labour for a quarter of a millennium!

We can never truly plumb the depths of the nightmare of Slavery, however hard we try.
What does the Dutch apology come to?
It gets my eyes wet, honestly, because it makes me wonder if really he understands. Does he understand? Well, it is at least okay he tries to. We can begin a good process from there.

“At this point, I often wonder whether or not education is fulfilling its purpose. A great majority of the so-called educated people do not think logically and scientifically. Even the press, the classroom, the platform, and the pulpit in many instances do not give us objective and unbiased truths. To save man from the morass of propaganda, in my opinion, is one of the chief aims of education. Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction. The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.” Martin Luther King Jr.

Good morning

Boom

Human Rights Lawyer, Chief Malcolm Omirhobo, Storms Supreme Court Dressed In Native Doctor Attire, After The Apex Court Ruled That Muslim Students Can Wear Hijab To Schools In Lagos.

According to reports, when the Learned Lawyer walked into the Supreme Court, the Justices who were on seat looked up in shock, looked at themselves and without a word, went on recess.

In an interview he granted few minutes later, Chief Omirhobo stated that since the Supreme Court has ruled last week that students could wear Hijab to schools in Lagos, that means the Court has given every religion a right to dress the way the believers wish to dress and that he has decided to dress like a traditionalist/native doctor from now on to court since the Supreme Court has given religious freedom to all religions!