INSPIRATION

IDEAS DON’T RULE THE WORLD, EXECUTED IDEAS DO

Mary Adole January 12, 2021 0

The quote above was coined by someone amazing I was fortunate to meet in the online space last year, Miss Chioma Nnanna, and it keeps ringing in my head all the time. What is the point of being a reservoire of ideas, when you cannot convert them into powerful innovations? In your head are ideas

INSPIRATION

A SIMPLE GUIDE TO BUILDING INFLUENCE

Mary Adole January 12, 2021 0

You do not have to become a Jeff Bezos, or an Elon Musk before you start to touch lives Being influential means that you are able to gain the confidence and trust of people, through a conscious effort at motivating, inspiring and challenging them It’s got nothing to do with wealth or titles Building influence […]

INSPIRATION

HOW TO KEEP SMASHING YOUR GOALS

Mary Adole January 5, 2021 0

There’s this unfortunate tendency to start to lose sight of the goals you had set at the beginning of the year, barely 3 months into it Sometimes, fear, doubt and uncertainty are what settles into your mind, and before you know it, you’ll start to see all the reasons why you cannot achieve these goals […]

EDUCATION INSPIRATION POLITICS

Barack Obama announces his new memoir, A Promised Land, will be out in November 2020

THE AFRI GIST September 18, 2020 0

Former President Barack Obama’s long-awaited presidential memoir is coming this November. The former US President made the book announcement on Instagram on Thursday morning. He said the book will be released on November 17. The book is titled “A Promised Land – The Presidential Memoirs, Vol. 1.” Sharing a photo of the book, he wrote: […]

NEWS INSPIRATION LIFESTYLE

World’s Oldest Couple Who Has Been Married For 79 Years Share Their Relationship Secrets

THE AFRI GIST September 3, 2020 0

A couple Julio Cesar Mora Tapia and Waldramina Maclovia Quinteros Reyes who has been married for 79 years has shared their relationship secrets. The couple who hold the Guinness World Records for the oldest marriage both share a combined age of 214. Julio is 110 while his beloved wife is 104 years. Julio was two […]

EDUCATION INSPIRATION NEWS

Meet The Nigerian Genius Who Got His PhD At 24 (Photo)

THE AFRI GIST July 17, 2020 0

Now 30, Hallowed Olaoluwa is one among Africa’s youngest physician of arithmetic and a professor. According to a LinkedIn submit by Adebayo Ilupeju, he obtained his bachelor degree at the age of 14, double bachelor’s degree at 17, before he went forward to get his masters in mathematics and physics at 19. It ought to be famous […]

HISTORY INSPIRATION TRAVELS

How An African Boy Sold Into Slavery Turned A Well-known Prince In England

THE AFRI GIST July 13, 2020 0

The story how an eight-year-old African boy sold into slavery finally ended up as a prince in England has been told. William Ansah Sessarakoo was a young man born in Anomabo, Ghana in 1736.  His father, John Corrente, who was the head of Annamaboe’s government, and chief caboceer (one of the native officers liable for supplying African […]