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Thursday, 8 September 2016
Friday, 22 July 2016
On Perseverance and Little Big Things
Keep doing what you do, as long as it makes positive sense!
Over the last few weeks, I have been having conversations about perseverance, failure and excellence. I heard humbling experiences of friends and colleagues as we all shared moments where we learned from failure and not-too-good moments. When some of these people talk about the successes of what they do, it seems they had never 'down' moments.
Tonight, Wisdom and I were checking my cabinet,...
Monday, 6 June 2016
Growing with Young African Leaders
If there is one thing i crave insatiably, it is growth.
Damola Morenikeji and Linda Thomas-Greenfield
Few weeks ago, I joined other young African leaders / professionals
selected (out of over 14,000 applications) for the US President's Young
African Leaders Initiative RLC Fellowship. I grew. I am still growing -
daily. Our individual commitment to growth is paramount; it influences our leadership, actions and results. The daily actions...
Monday, 28 March 2016
The ‘Iyalaya Anybody’ Lessons on Innovation and Development in Africa
by Damola Morenikeji
Most times in the development space, we have to look beyond headlines and taglines and focus on lessons from pieces and lives. I read Prof. Pius Adesanmi’s keynote address titled “Iyalaya Anybody: Pencils, Nigerian Innovation, & Africa’s Path in the 21st Century”** delivered last week in Lagos, Nigeria. Beyond the ostensibly ‘obscenity’ that may come with the title, he distinctively approached the theme of innovation...
Sunday, 27 March 2016
More than a Million Pounds
Over one million thoughts engaged one another in my head, after seeing the premiere of 'One Million Pounds' along with some other Young African Leaders.
For us to sustain the 'Africa Rising' reality, Africans must place further value on values, honour and integrity instead of money and cheer materialism. We are worth more than these things. More. We need to build institutions, not only strong individuals.
Our commitment to excellence shouldn't...
Friday, 1 January 2016
Of Flipping Calendars, Leadership and Gratitude
What other way may one flip over the calendar than being in a state of happiness, humility and genuine gratitude, encouraged by the realization that one’s actions are still serving as blessings to several other young people and societies in Africa and across the world. It is indeed humbling and ‘graceful’.
The last three days – till now – have been filled with severely intensive growth and learning experiences as we engaged the fourth cohort...
Saturday, 19 September 2015
A Toast to Growth
Dear friends,
I had been on leave for a while.
However, throughout my 'partial-leave of absence', I delight each time at news I receive about friends (including several readers of this blog and members of my online community), colleagues and members of our @All4Development tribe. I delight at moments when your seemingly 'impossible' ideas grow and transform lives; i delight at moments when you do things better, because you learnt from experience;...
Saturday, 21 February 2015
Beyond the Idea; making entrepreneurship work
Some thirteen weeks ago, I led a team of young innovative entrepreneurs – all undergraduates – to the a national contest for ideas; it was the National Idea's contest organised by the Nigerian Universities Commission for all Nigerian universities, as part of the Annual National Entrepreneurship Week, in commemoration of the 2014 Global Entrepreneurship Week.
Our 6-human team shared an innovative idea, which if thoroughly implemented will reduce...
Monday, 5 January 2015
Of Harvard, Life and Mathematics
Previous years had availed me opportunities that were invested in meeting, learning (with) and growing with several people - young and old, great and greater. Apart from people, a conscious commitment to personal growth and knowledge have witnessed my learning from erudite scholars and institutions from across the world. One of such is my participation in the inaugural offering of JusticeX from Harvard University in April 2013. The course, led by Prof. Michael Sandel, enhanced my view of critical decision making as we explored through critical...
Monday, 21 July 2014
Of Productivity and Growth; lessons from the Productivity Award
My phone rang. I had just received a call from the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta who also is the President, Association of African Universities. He sounded delighted to have spoken with me, and eager to see me. The phone welcomed several other calls, most from within the university intimating a pleasant urgency and some intuitive actions.
That morning, I was concluding plans to help facilitate a two-day training...
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