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Get Out

By Gary Ryan Blair in Rants and Raves Whether the goal is to get out of the comfort zone or to deliver an out of this world speech, the solution is always the same… improve your how by outbehaving who you were yesterday. Outsmart Outperform Outlead Outcare Outmaneuver Outinvest Outlisten Outconnect Outgive Outlearn Outwork Outspend Outrespect Outinnovate Outrisk Outpersevere Outinspect Outproduce Outrisk Outlove… Bookmark It Join us on facebook

Wole Soyinka Special

An In-depth expository of the Living Legend A Writer A Scholar An Activist Professor 'Wole Soyinka Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka   popularly known as ‘Wole Soyinka’ was born into a Yoruba family, the second of six children, descendant of a Remo family of Isara-Remo  in the city of Abeokuta , Ogun State in Nigeria, on the 13th of July, 1934 . He was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature the first African to be honoured in that category. His Nobel acceptance speech, "This Past Must Address Its Present", was devoted to South African freedom-fighter Nelson Mandela Soyinka's mother, Grace Eniola Soyinka (whom he dubbed the "Wild Christian"), owned a shop in the nearby market. She was a political activist within the women's movement in the local community. She was also an Anglican He was raised in a religious family, attending church services and singing in the choir from an early age; however Soyinka himself ...

The many colours of success

Many Colours of Success We live in a world where money literally means success, where assumptions overrule certainties and stereotyped beliefs instill fears in people. It's a great thing to dream, hope and fantasize, but to what end? Dreams, especially for the undisciplined is a waste of time because it will shift with circumstances and will most likely remain a dream till such person dies, which makes the mortuary the wealthiest abode in human existence. Hope on the other hand is futile without realistic hard work, can be narrowed depending on the size of the expectations but with a recent cliché that most people have adopted which says "expectations bring disappointment"... I wonder what this means. What is success? Outstanding performance at an examination? Marriage at the end of a long courtship? Pregnancy after a long wait? Victory at a highly competitive pitch? Victory at the polls as a politician? Hitting the jackpot at a lotto? Lifting the trophy as a c...