I attended a catholic primary school, so as much as weekly mass was entrenched in the system, so was community service. I remember when we would be asked to donate our old clothes and excess toiletries towards orphanage visits. There were times that it became somewhat competitive amongst the students all vying for the invisible […]
Facebook and Access are proud to announce the Access Facebook Award. The Access Facebook Award is a new initiative that will award US$20,000 to an individual, organization or network that has the best actionable idea of how to use the Facebook platform to deliver a human rights or social good outcome. The Access Facebook Award […]
Carmela Alvarez is twenty-five years old and was elected into public office as the Mayor of a town called San Vicente in the Palawan province in the Philippines. I met ‘Pie’ as we call her as one of my fellow global shapers at the January 2012 World Economic Forum Meeting in Davos. Along with education […]
By Wana Udobang It has been six months since my return from Davos, and Davos was all and more that I was told it would be. It was a consortium of some of the most powerful minds, smartest innovators, influential business people and policy makers in our world today. Nothing prepares you for the Davos […]
By Wana Udobang My friend Saratu and I were seated on my couch engrossed in one of our random linear conversations. This time around, we were both gushing about our newfound love for Taiye Selasi, the photographer and author whose fiction debut The Sex Lives of African Girls made Granta’s “F Word” issue. We found […]
By Wana Udobang As a young person, ones life can be filled with so much angst, depression, loneliness, and pain that you are convinced that every second of your life is at a tethering edge. The moments where you want to leap of that ledge to end it may not be few and far in-between. […]
Here is a live performance from my new favourite group Sonic Slam Chorus. Their music is fusion of spoken word, slam poetry and jazz. The main poet being featured on this track DiksonSlam is a very dear friend of mine. His words are piercing and his metaphors are razor sharp. Hope you enjoy this Members: Cecilie […]
Gomez is lying on the floor, curled like a foetus. His head placed on Bisola’s lap as she kneads her palm into his temples. Someone else is squeezing his toes as he muffles sounds between clenched teeth that I can only make out to be something like, “Harder Harder”. He can barely move. I […]
Building on the great success of the Intercultural Innovation Award in 2011, the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) and the BMW Group are continuing their solid partnership in 2012. At the first Partners Forum of the UNAOC in Istanbul, Bill McAndrews, Vice President Communications Strategy, Corporate Communications BMW Group, has officially announced the second […]
By Wana Udobang The year was 2007 and I was a final year student inEnglandliving in a predominantly white town called Farnham when I discovered Bassey Ikpi . It occurred during one of my long night stretches of illegally downloading movies off the internet and watching hours of Russel Simmon’s Def Poetry Jam footage on […]