Open Your Mind

“You can only be destroyed by believing that you are what the white world calls a nigger. I tell you this because I love you, and please...

Adam Neumann, born with dyslexia could not read and write until he was in the third grade. This didn’t seem to be a major hindrance in...

The Shinkasen train can go up to speeds of 603km/h. This Japanese bullet train, as the name suggests has bullet-like speed. On a...

First thing first, happy New Year, how fortunate are we to see the new decade? It’s that time, where we get out our pens, manila papers;...

What really matters, bravery or persistence? As the year ends most of us, if not all of us, use this time to reflect on how the year...

Its vastness sometimes scares me. Like a blanket, deep down its cover are creatures that seem out of this world. I have respect for its...

“Nothing is more beautiful than cultivating the land at dusk. At that time of day in the central highlands the air and the soil are cool,...

To be successful work hard like a poor man and have the confidence of a rich man. I don’t know the origin of this quote, but I remember...

It doesn’t matter your race, imagine yourself as being white, a whiteboard to be specific. A beam of light is projected on that white...

“To be a scientist is to be naïve. We are so focused on our search for truth we fail to consider how few actually want us to find it, but...

In my childhood I feared the darkness. Whenever I was sent for something in a dark room I’d stand in the corridor for a while and go back...

One of my favourite rap lyrics is, ‘everybody’s somebody’s everything nobody’s nothing.’ It may not sound prolific but when Chance the...

Pericles was an introverted young man, quiet and avoided public appearances and speeches. He later became a great Athens statesman,...

I noticed water trickling down the corridor, later realising that the discussion I was having with my family had made my sister forget...

I made it to the noisemaker list a couple of times in primary school. I don’t think I was a nuisance; I just had the urge to talk and it...

Peter Goldman a journalist was having a conversation with Malcolm X, where Malcolm jokingly wanted to know what he believed about civil...

Remember that time you were walking, in a cool, nature filled area? The oxygen unpolluted, the sky beautiful and the landscape...

I was with friends enjoying a conversation and one of them was curious about my next move. He was curious because I had made changes...

Emmett Till was visiting his relatives in Mississippi during the summer of August 1955. A teenager at the time, I do not know if he...

Forty five congregants pioneered this church. Half being missionaries and the other half comprised mostly of high school students. The...