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My YALI experience
I recently completed over 20 weeks of training as a YALI (West Africa Regional Leadership Centre, Accra) trainee. For those who don’t know, YALI is the Young African Leaders Initiative, an initiative of the government of the United States of America that was launched under the leadership of former president Barack Obama. The goal of YALI is to train young Africans to be the next generation of leaders that Africa needs.
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The year 2020: a retrospective review
Lol. To be honest, I don't know why I chose to make that title the title of this end-of-year review post. I just opened the laptop and realised I didn't have a title and I also didn't want to go with '2020 in retrospect'. I guess this title actually fits, especially considering that none of us could have accurately predicted how this year turned out.
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What is public health?
I thought I knew the correct answer to this until I started researching alternate careers for my personal journey and Doctors Without Steths. Somewhere in my head, public health was health education, disease prevention with a good serving of epidemiology, dasall. I really don’t know where I got this idea from, probably because I equated it with community health for the longest time
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Identity: What does it really mean?
I have always thought of identity as a concept, idea or set of adjectives that define me, who I am. Such an identity has so much more to do with the inner self than the outward situation. It is so much more than body size, hair colour or job title. If those things change, does that imply that your identity, who you really are, changes as well?
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Sync memories – A blast from the past
I was going through my Google photos app, trying to find an old photo from years back when I stumbled on photos from my YBC year. This is not the first time in my use of the app that I'll stumble on those photos, but somehow on the day in question, I felt nostalgic. I found myself spending several minutes going through those pictures and just reliving the memories.
