Good Read: The Girl With The Louding Voice - Abi Dare

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  In this remarkable story, Adunni, the main character, depicts ambition fuelled with a burning desire to succeed despite all odds. Tales of this type still abound in Lagos, and they are portrayed in the media daily. Adunni is hailed as the poor girl with a rich mind, "Sherlock Holmes," who never stops asking intelligent questions, a child-bride, and a strong-willed girl who grew up fast due to the circumstance her parents put her through. However, she had the guts to pursue the life she wanted. - An education by any means necessary.  Adunni finally got her groove back after reading such an easy book, I could relate to the characters there. the harsh and despicable reality of Lagos till date. I would recommend this book to my friends and would love to see it turned into a film.

Forced Cannibalism Reported In South Sudan Ongoing Civil War

say no to tribalism
I could remember in a video I posted up yesterday of the World Igbo Congress which got Nnamdi Kanu arrested for inciting war, references were made on South Sudan gaining their own independence in 2011 after years of battling. New reports from South Sudan has emerged detailing the horrors being enacted as part of a civil war between the Dinka and Nuer ethnic groups. We all know tribalism destroys a country and only embracing multiculturalism can bring about a change.  

displaced persons camp
There really has been no peace for this country and even the investigations into the horrors have had to be done independently because the country’s Dinka President Salva Kiir and former Vice President Riek Machar (who is a Nuer) are so deep in the ongoing war. 
"Cases of sexual and gender-based violence committed by both parties against women,” says the report. “It also documented extreme cruelty exercised through the mutilation of bodies, burning of bodies, draining human blood from people who had just been killed and forcing others from one ethnic community to drink the blood or eat burnt human flesh.” - AU Commission led by Nigeria's ex-president Olusegun Obasanjo.
Yesterday, the AU published a separate report by Mahmood Mamdani (pdf), a Ugandan academic and member of the AU commission of inquiry, which urged that Kiir and Machar should be left out of a transitional government.
“We note that killings continue on both sides even as negotiations towards an effective ceasefire and the formation of an interim government continue in Addis Ababa,”
Rwanda is just recovering from the genocide that happened in 1994 amongst its own people. Let's not repeat the same mistake.

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