That thread was necessary, as a girl in her young 20s I'm awakened to the fact that:
1. You can always be more
2. Whatever you pursued for undergraduate doesn't have to necessarily determine your Masters or PhD
3. Black women are more than the eyes meet
4. There's no academic limit, you can keep on going and going and going
So a letter to my 10 years self from now, "represent us well, Ik you can"
BSc - Medical laboratory science
MSc - Molecular medicine with distinction
MSc - International regulatory science
PhD - Pharmaceutical and Biomedical science
Cert - Clinical trial design and management
Cert - Int regulatory science
Beverly Hirsh Frank Fellow
Too many to remember
An entire state can get wiped out in one night and Nigerians will go to work the next day. We’re being exposed to an insane level of violence and we’re scrolling away
JUST IN..ONE OF THE ABDUCTED SCHOOL CHILDREN GONE..
Sadly, one of the abducted schoolchildren kidnapped in Oyo State, Ahoro Esinele, has reportedly died.
Days ago, photos of her in captivity showed she was already seriously ill. Last night, the kidnappers reportedly appeared on a TikTok live stream and announced her death, telling her mother they no longer had her child.
They may not have used a weapon, but captivity killed her. The hunger, beatings, cold nights, fear, and terrible conditions were too much for her young body to survive.
Her heartbroken mother said through tears: “I knew it. She was not very strong. On the day they were abducted, she only managed to go to school. Unfortunately, she never returned home.”
No parent should ever experience the pain of a child leaving for school and never coming back alive.
Another innocent life has been lost. Another family has been shattered.