June 14th, 2008
Hello,
This one is a very light-hearted phone conversation between myself and my two younger sisters. This one is for anyone who might be thinking of or is raising some immigrant kids. Hope you derive some value from it.

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Tags: African immigrant, African immigrant children, Immigrant children, Melbourne
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June 13th, 2008
I wrote this piece a while back and submitted it to one of the big blogs in the African blogosphere in the hopes of being published as a guest author. But alas, I felt the sting of rejection 🙁 On the bright side, this piece gets published anyway 😀 ….and since there are a whole bunch of you new readers, I would like to welcome you with a tale of one of my experiences from my early days of Australian life. If you enjoy the peace, make sure you leave a comment with a little anecdote of your own.
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Tags: African, African immigrant, African immigration, culture clash, culture shock, Immigration
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June 12th, 2008
So, yesterday I got tagged yet again by Meek Meek from intricately me and thought that it would be cool if I could kill two meme birds with one meme stone and so here we are. Straight to it.

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Tags: 8 things I want to do before I die, Bucket list, Mo Ma meme, Timothy Ferriss
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June 11th, 2008
Hello,
You know this article applies almost exactly to me. Though at present I am not a very big fan of esoteric or linguistically complex and philosophical pieces of writing, i.e. I like to dumb things down and like people who do the same, I can’t deny that this piece is introducing an idea that’s definitely one that’s worth thinking about and exploring through more pieces of writing, books, films etc. People like us African immigrants are an entirely unique entity unto ourselves and its time we began talking about our Afropolitan nature. Enjoy!
NB: I have quoted text from this blog post verbatim
What exactly is an “Afropolitan”?
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Tags: African, African immigrant, African immigration, Afropolitan
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June 10th, 2008
Hey,
I have been tagged by Mo Ma. So I thought that with Mo Ma’s permission, rather than answering all the questions in the “Meme Mo Ma” (brilliant branding) at once, I would spread it out over time and discuss different elements of it. I begin with……
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Tags: leadership psychology, meme, Mo Ma, Pursue your passion
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