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Aminata Alice Yajoh, Visual and Performing Artist
Aminata Alice Yajoh is a self-taught artist from the Gambia. She is in her early twenties and a School of Public Health graduate of The Gambia College. Aminata is one of the country's few promising women in a male-dominated art community. Her paintings portray her...
Nepotism
Will I be disappointed if I am rejected before entering the interview room? Yes. Will I, however, find solace in the fact that the position was never mine to begin with? Definitely. Will I possibly undermine the skill and intelligence of the individual who profited...
In The Stillness I Wept
“One minute I am floating, and the next minute it feels like I have been hit by a bus.” These are the words I told my therapist the first time I visited her a few months ago. I was hurt and hopeless, and although I hoped that the pain would go away, I had learnt to...
Cohabitation, The New Normal We Must Learn More About
I'll start today with a story, one told by a friend. There's this mental health group where people talk about the essential aspects of life and the things to watch out for, and it's from here, the topic of cohabitation came up. This started like a piece of advice that...
Conversations About Mental Health
In the last couple of years, I would say mental health has been one of the most addressed issues, and that's a milestone I am glad to witness. But although this has been the case, there's still more that desires to be done. Mental health is a condition that the...
Toxic Traits
There's a reason why the fruit doesn't fall far from the tree. We all have at least one single behavioral feature that we despise (if we're aware of it), and, surprisingly enough, we can typically figure out where we got it from provided it's not a distant cousin,...
Uncertainty
As I wrapped up my leadership and mindset change programme in December 2021, I drew an action matrix, which had things I was going to implement this year. Being the kind of things I'm passionate about, I thought it would be a bit easy but I was wrong. I forgot that...
Written in My Heart to Him
It's the 24th of August today, and I'm still wondering why it doesn't feel like I have made progress with moving on. I do not know if it's because I imagined doing a lot with you, but I wonder if the chance will present itself again! Everything seems to have ended...
Forgive, Forget, Move On Already!
At an early age in most cultures, the girl child is forced to master the art of suppressing her emotions by constantly being reminded that her family, friends, future partner, and in-laws will do their worst. So it's in her best interest to be numb, tameable, have a...