Okechukwu’s Musings: Poetry, People and Places

Tag: leadership

  • Proactive Leadership

    Do you see yourself as a leader? I’d like to think of myself as a leader because I’m proactive, creative, and willing to work with everyone. So I will answer with a list of my leadership experience in no order. I’ve volunteered in-person and remotely for several NGOs in Africa, the Middle East, and America.…

  • Humanity First

    The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life Birds up the trees There, up the trees, I saw several nests. I knew more were there because I could hear a multitude of birds chirping. Most of the nests were…

  • Reflection: A King Without A Crown

  • I Gained My Freedom

    Freedom sometimes does not come free. Gained My Right of Way Looking back on my nursery and primary school days, I would say I didn’t have much interest in the games provided for schoolkids. I was not too fond of the swing. I had no joy in rocking back and forth on a piece of…

  • Opinion: Leadership Woes

    Admitting imperfections are great ways to becoming a better person, people and leaders. City of Talents and Resilient people I was born and raised in Ogbor hill, a suburb of Aba, a city in Southern Nigeria. Aba is known for its industry and export of labour to many Nigerian cities and overseas. The city is…

  • Modern Scramble for Africa

  • Opinion: The 2020 World University Rankings

  • Amnesty Int’l Letter: Children’s Day 2020

  • Boss Vs Leader (Images)

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  • Poverty and Covid-19

    This image says it all. All they have in rural Africa are hope, prayers and faith. Most of our leaders are little more than puppeteers.

  • On Covid-19 Vaccines by West Indamakin

    Author’s opinion, editted by oiroegbu.com Today Africa is slapped with Covid-19 vaccine testing because of her over dependence on the West for solutions to every challenge faced by the continent. African leaders deny their countries modern medical infrastructure like hospitals and adequate resources to support professionals to attain desired results and match what health practitioners…

  • When Leadership inspires

    Leadership is a great responsibility. It’s in no way a small feat because it involves handling other people’s issues. For the public to trust anyone with power and authority such a person must have earned it through evident charisma and selfless character. A leader is open minded, available to lead the way, and be able…

  • Leadership and Nigeria’s Covid-19 situation

  • Thoughts on the State of Leadership in Africa

    No one can fully explain why we – Africans, are so poor amid plenty. I will try to explain why. There’s a lot of greed and grief in African leadership. When leaders are greedy, citizens stagger in distress. We still don’t know how the dust hit us between the eyes. And while we researched answers,…

  • Dear Diary: State of Affairs

    Dear Diary, This isn’t poetry or politics, but a personal note, a soliloquy, and thoughts that bother me. I see corruption every day, and it seems people are too timid to stand against it. Most are afraid of something. And I know what that something is. Maybe I’m a little scared again, but I’m uncomfortable…

  • Say it now: for Yemeni children

    Say not your voice has no power, For we listened and heard you speak from radios, And you spoke of many things, that helped not dying souls They say humanity is not defined by guns nor skin But look at kids wallow in great pain for no reason Look not another way while we die…

  • African Proverbs 2

    Here’s a Guinean Proverb: Knowledge of leadership is not plucked from the air, one is born with it. Explanation: Selflessness, honesty, compassion and every other qualities of Leadership are groomed from good home training, personal decisions to live upright and treat others right.

  • Leadership: Is Education Really Worth It?

    I debated the relevance of education in Africa. So I will weigh my thoughts on a pendulum. If the pendulum swings to yes, I wonder why we have educated Africans who make little or no effort to enhance the social and economic well-being of the continent. I wonder why people with academic zeal are not…

  • Thoughts on Africa 2: Education

    The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the real goal of education. – Martin Luther King, Jr Education is vital for individual, community, and national growth. It is a key tool that can drive social, economic, and political transformation across Africa.…

  • Thoughts: Africa

    Don’t be overwhelmed by what you see. Stay calm in the raging storm Life has not been fair to many people. Sometimes, it is easy to imagine from a safe part of the world how people survive in war-torn, disaster- or disease-stricken areas of Africa. We wake up to different news each morning. Economic reports…