BY MAXWELL NYIMBILI The Young Leaders Program, is designed to acquaint its scholars with exceptional mental adaptation skills, for life beyond high school. I aim, like scholars before me, to further develop my positive mindset and develop my critical thinking, in order to make an impact in university and find sustainable ways of giving back […]
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Inside a criminal mind
Written by Selah Makinishi Growing up in an environment where boys outnumber girls, I used to spend my days watching a lot of criminal and investigative tv series (like The Blacklist) and took a keen interest in reading books about criminal behaviour. I particularly enjoyed Dead Simple by Peter James because of how well he […]
PREDICTING THE FUTURE TO CREATE IT
Written by Damaris Nzala A dream is a seed in my mind. I have been granted an opportunity to plant my seed and work towards its germination. Since learning about Our Moon, I aspired to be one of its Young Leaders . And now I am living in reality. I remember a point in time […]
Investing in the lives today for a better tomorrow
Blog written by Frederick Despite the basic career expectations that African parents have for their children such as becoming a doctor, nurse or a teacher, I took a different path of interest. I became interested in politics at a very young age. At that point, the prospect of politics and becoming a politician or even […]
Reimagining Cool Africa Through Technology
In the second blog of our new student series, Daniel talks about how his love of mathematics and desire to study computer science drew him to Our Moon. Nelson Mandela once said ” I dream of the realization of unity of Africa whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this […]
Introducing Tiwonge – interested in improving access to mental health services in Zambia
Tiwonge is one of Our Moon’s new student recruits. Here she talks about her desire to combat the taboos around mental health in Zambia. “Like many Zambians, I grew up in a society where talking about feelings was not encouraged. As a child I saw this to be normal but, as I read more books […]