Our scholar Zoe has written his first novel. In this intimate blog, Zoe writes about the emotional impact that writing has had on him, and shares his novel. You can see from the blog, that he is a novelist in the making. There are many joys involved in writing a novel. There is the inherent […]
Leadership and Ethics: The Ideal African Leader
Thomas, one of our scholars, has written a great piece on his time at Yale Young African Scholars summer programme in Rwanda and what he learnt about leadership. The lesson that different leadership styles need to be adopted in different situations is surely one that many leaders today, both in Africa and the west, could […]
Tony’s Experience of Ashesi University
Justin recently caught up with Tony, one of Our Moon’s first students at Hillcrest, to hear about his first year at Ashesi University. When I got to Ashesi I thought I wouldn’t get to interact with many people, the lecturers especially. I thought it would be very formal, but after a week or so I […]
Quality Education
Written by Chris Kaumba As an African, I’m not blind to the problems we face; I’m not blind to my needs and those of my kind. Many though, these problems are, I wish to talk about one: THE QUALITY OF MY COUNTRY’S EDUCATION! Much cogitation is going through my mind as I see little fellows […]
Theresa: My Experience as a Mentor at Our Moon
When Helen asked me to be a mentor for one of her scholars, Janet Botha, I was both excited and scared: excited because I would get the chance to impart my knowledge of college applications, and scared because being a mentor partially meant I had to take responsibility for my mentee’s applications. I was also […]
How Facebook Saved the Day
So picture this. She is stuck three hours from home, on a dusty road in a small broken-down bus jammed with hot bodies, music belching at too many decibels to think. A Facebook message pops up on my screen. “It’s hopeless. I won’t be home in time. And even if I am, my dad will […]