I grew up in the township of Soweto in Johannesburg, South Africa. My mom could not afford to take me to university and we struggled, so from a young age I knew I had to make a plan. I remember at the age of 11 how my mom gave me a packet of sweets to sell during break and I started employing my friends to sell for me as well. From then on I could play during break while they sold the sweets for me and I made more profit. (more…)

I am highly inspired by my sister who is a nursing intern and doing her duties to help others during the Covid pandemic.  I look at my sister and see a REAL-LIFE HERO who I respect along with her profession. My sister rarely has time to show her own pain and always tries hard to make the patients happy. Whenever her patients are going through some pain, she has always tried to comfort them, not only during this Covid pandemic, but throughout the years. She is a strong woman, who never gave up. Her life is going to evolve and...

As a child my dream was to be dentist. My dream was to give each and everybody a smile. Many people fear smiling because of their dental formula, colored teeth or even lack of any teeth. So, I always promised myself I would make their dreams to smile come true.When I completed my secondary school my mum had other plans. She wanted me to do animal heath which was not my thing.  I didn't get a chance to do that, but I got a chance to do nursing. Even though it was hard for me to accept it, I still...

My name is Habib Zakawanu Onoruoyiza, from Kogi State, Nigeria.  I am 26 years old and here is my story into the photography world.  Photography, simple and sweet as it may look, requires a lot to arrive at that sweetness.  The bedrock of all good photographs we see today starts from the mind, sight and creativeness. Let me take you down memory lane of my journey to photography in Kogi central. Before 2015 in Kogi central, what we now see as photography today was not what people viewed it as.  I took it upon myself to change the narrative about...

I remember the tale of how I had stumbled upon an oratory contest online.It was a friend that actually told me about it a day to the deadline and I had to upload a video before the deadline. I felt it was too sudden, I couldn't make a new video and for a moment I felt I should just brush off the idea.But, few hours before the closure, I quickly uploaded one of my videos speaking at church and the week after, I was stunned to see that I had been selected to go through another selection stage which was...

Sometimes, I sit down and just laugh. People often wonder why I laugh but had they understood the reason; they would join me.  Life is full of adversities and a lot of people may always want to benefit off you.  It is a precarious situation especially in our dear country; the hustle, the zeal, the determination to succeed has geared people to want to feast on others.  For all the adversity I have faced, I may have decided not to continue, to quit and to stop fighting but I continued, kept fighting and pushing hard, always thinking that success is...