Why Mastering English Matters
For those of you just starting out in your line of trade in an anglophone space, here’s a piece of advice on why you must master your language of scholarship. If you intend to be a subject-area expert, especially in a field that requires analysis, your biggest tool for climbing up your professional ladder is language. Master it so well that you can think in it as you do in your native language, and you will ease your journey.
Nothing will give you publicity in your field and beyond like language. By questioning things and writing about them, you will attract attention from top organizations in your profession and be engaged as a consultant because of how eloquently you share knowledge in your field.
A foreign media platform, for instance, can offer you more than $1,000 for an essay on a subject of your expertise from the comfort of your room, and that’s because of the eloquence with which you communicate your views. So, don’t subscribe to the lazy thinking that mastering your language of scholarship is a ticket to nowhere.
If English language proficiency isn't a measure of intelligence, what do we call your inability to master the basics of your language of instruction in school for at least 12 years? Clearly, mastering your language of academic scholarship can't be a sign of stupidity. If you're unable to comprehend the basic rules of the language in which you're taught from primary school to university, do not delude yourself with the excuse that such a deficiency means nothing. Because it does—it means you're not smart or properly educated.
It's understandable when, say, a Chinese engineer struggles to communicate in English. It's not his language of instruction at school. But when a Nigerian, who has passed through Western schools and earned certificates therein, exhibits similar difficulty, the symptom is something we should not be proud of. It's a deficiency.
It's one thing to err; it's another to be ignorant of things your credentials suggest you have mastered. Do not confuse ignorance with a mistake.
If nothing else, the tragedies of the United States of America have reminded us that words matter & that the power of life & death is in the tongue.
Dear #Leader kindly learn how not to be reckless with words (like Trump)
#leadership#love#unity#peace#inspire#positivity
Teach your children the proper names for private parts.(Penis, vagina, breasts). They're not bad words. That's the proper name, hiding it passes across a mindset that they can't talk about those parts.
This makes them vulnerable to predators.
Protect our children.
When you cultivate a pattern of procrastination, that pattern eventually establishes who you become. And if you keep procrastinating your personal development with excuses.
One day, your excuses will become your only silverware. And you will blame your loved ones for this.
The way Black Women say "girl" can be Magical.
Frankly, I have no solid beliefs about the survival of consciousness after physical death but if it happens, I know what I want to see after my trek toward the light.
I want to see a black woman who will smile and say, "Girl!"
#WCW
let it be known that the president of Nigeria congratulated Joe Biden just few hours after he was announced president but he took 3 weeks to respond to the Nigerian citizens protesting to end police brutality in Nigeria.
If #Nigerians uphold our dream of the #NewNigeria that is being birthed now, we will win! The American people's victory proves the words of #GenevieveNnaji [Nigerian actress] & I quote: "there is no room for tyranny in today's world. Every dictator's reign must come to an end."
The last few days have been long for all Americans & many others around the world. Joe Biden has been declared America's next president – & for the first time in over 200 years, America's #VicePresident will be a Black & South Asian American woman who is a daughter of immigrants.
And for #myNigeria, a nation of diverse yet vibrant people, even though I didn't view Trump as a bad President, I showed understanding to everyone who clamoured for change because I live in a country in dire need of #change, especially with recent events in my country.