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℘℘℘ The greatest failure in America is the failure to stay young. It is a failure of imagination, the inability to grasp the alternatives offered by surgery, cosmetology, and pharmacology. It is a failure of will, the indiscipline that results in flagging energies, flabby bodies, and clogged arteries. It is a failure of financial planning, the incapacity to amass the resources needed to deploy the full panoply of anti-aging techniques and technologies. Most basic of all, it is a failure o...

There is a school of thought that writer’s block comes from having no ideas at all. I like to refer to it as the ‘creative juices’ not flowing enough or even at all. Others say it comes from an overflow of ideas when there is a clash of interests that your mind cannot narrow it down to one. Advertisement However, my experience with writer’s block was different, stemming up from the fear of not being able to pen down what I most needed to write. A crippling unease invades my psyche; I b...

The language of African literature The debate over the language of African literature has continued to generate significant interest ever since the emergence of African literary writing in European languages. This exciting debate on the most appropriate language of African literature continues to this day from the 1960’s. When one looks at any given language in this world, one sees hundreds and thousands of years of experience. For instance, a farming community has an elaborate language that ...

Daily Post Nigeria Published There is a school of thought that writer’s block comes from having no ideas at all. I like to refer to it as the ‘creative juices’ not flowing enough or even at all. Others say it comes from an overflow of ideas when there is a clash of interests that your mind cannot narrow it down to one. However, my experience with writer’s block was different, stemming up from the fear of not being able to pen down what I most needed to write. A crippling unease invades ...

news Ezinma: How Beyoncés violinist is tearing up the rules © Decca Records Growing up, violin prodigy Meredith Ezinma Ramsay hated her middle name. "I was so embarrassed by it," she says. "I was like, Why couldnt you have called me something normal, like Haley?" She was given the name by her father, a mathematician from Guyana. Derived from the Igbo language of Nigeria, it means "true beauty" or "good fortune" - but Ramsay didnt appreciate its significance until she read Chinua Achebes mast...

Updated / Tuesday, 11 May 2021 11:00 Author, journalist, coach and meditation teacher, Conor Creighton has been travelling the globe as a reporter, a motivational speaker and a meditation teacher for nearly twenty years. He teaches courses throughout Ireland, from prison yards to corporate boardrooms, and more recently in collaboration with the artist Maser. He is also an award-winning journalist and the former editor of Totally Dublin magazine. Now Conor has published This Is It, a memoir and...

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Reflections on 60 Years of Sierra Leone’s independence  2 hours ago | By Alhaji U. N’jai On April 27th, 2021, Sierra Leone as a nation turns 60. Celebrations across the country to mark Independence Day have become a usual tradition. There is nothing bad with fellow Sierra Leoneans celebrating Independence. After all, our colonial era began with the British Crown Colony establishment in 1808 and annexation of the entire country through establishment of a British Protectorate in 1896...

African authors – writing for the world Facebook Gail Collins outlines the growth of African literature, from the 18th century to modern times. In 1761, a small child, Phillis Wheatley (as renamed by the family she worked for) was captured and taken from her home in West Africa to Boston in the US. Fortunately, she landed in the arms of a benevolent family who taught her to read and write but they would have been totally unaware that this would lead her to become the first African to have wor...

Innoson’s reported acceptance of crypto payments Clubhouse’s first anniversary The fate of USSD in Nigeria On March 12, 2020, the Association for the Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON), an umbrella body for the likes of MTN, Glo, Airtel and 9Mobile, released a statement that it would withdraw USSD services from Nigerian banks. Advertisement Why? Nigerian banks apparently owe the mobile network operators a whopping sum of ₦49 billion ($102.4 million), and both partie...