I come from Nathuwakhan, a small village with simple living where my journey started in Uttarakhand’s Nainital district, a Himalayan state in India. I come from a farming family. Farmers struggle with limited resources, especially water for the fields and access to good fertilizer. There are no healthcare and education facilities here, so people often …
I Watched Planes from My Village – One Day I finally flew in One Read More »
by Joyce Wachau Chege My mass communication degree took four years to complete. These were years of being in class every week learning, making new friends and enduring long lecturer strikes that only prolonged our time there on campus. Years of learning different units — some of which I dreaded; maths for social science and …
by Jasmine Koria My name is Jasmine, which in Anglicized Mandarin is mo li hua. I learned this on a recent visit to China, a few years after I finished processing the fact that my great, great (great-great) grandfather came to Samoa from Northern China to work a job he never left. There are days …
by Monica Islam I had not boarded a plane and travelled out of Bangladesh for a decade now. Therefore, when the opportunity to travel to China on a short study tour was offered to me by the Confucius Institute at North South University, I immediately accepted it. This travel jinx was finally lifted off me …
by Evans Ijakaa “Which do you think is the most useless major?” I have watched countless vox pop videos where communications repeatedly emerges as the default response. “What do they even study, how to communicate?” People’s attitudes toward the media are not the main problem. The main problem is whether media and media education are …
Why Media Students and Graduates Are Falling Behind in the Age of Social Media Read More »
by Jasmine Koria Twenty-five-year-old Vensel Margraff has always been a high achiever. In his school years, he was Head Boy and dux (Valedictorian, highest-scoring senior student) of Robert Louis Stevenson Secondary school, and then also dux of the National University of Samoa’s foundation year program in 2017. As an undergraduate student in 2020, he won …
by Imran Bacchus As Guyana prepared for its 2025 General and Regional Elections, the Guyana National Youth Council launched a National Voters Initiative aimed at ensuring young people were informed and engaged in the electoral process. The non-partisan, fully youth-led Council convened representatives from all major political parties to discuss how their manifestos address issues …
Guyana’s Youth Council organizes Voters Education Initiative Read More »
Around the world, young professionals are not waiting for change, they are making it. From community lead energy initiatives to driving corporate policy, the youth of today are proving that the future of energy belongs to those bold enough to lead it. by Joshua Fenemer The energy transition is happening as we speak, and young …
Youth and The Energy Transition: Powering a Sustainable Future Read More »
by Jasmine Koria Jonathan Pa’u and I have spent most of our lives living down the street from each other. Despite this and defying basic probability as Samoa has a meager population of just over 200,000 people (most of whom know each other and/or are somehow related), Jonathan and I met for the first time …
A Love Letter to Legacy: A Conversation with Fulbright Alumni Letoa Jonathan Pa’u’ Read More »
by Ewura Adwoa Larbi Seven fifty-five in the evening and the sun hasn’t set. A mix of conversations in a foreign tongue drift up the street to my window; the surest sign that I am away from home. In my comfort zone, the sun smiled at 6 am and set by 7 pm like clockwork. …
The September Effect: Daring to Disobey the Script Read More »
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