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Doctoral Student @ MIT
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Hi Nathaniel, First things first, Google is your friend. Find useful resources online, there's a lot of useful material on LinkedIn as well. Take courses, depending on what it is, you may be able to find free courses. Find people in the space you're looking for to mentor you. Also remember, a lot of skills are transferrable, so look for ways you can change gears with the skills you have gained previously and use it to ad value to your new career.
Toyin Jolapamo
Senior Digital Communications Analyst @ Oando Plc
Interesting, but this depends on so many factors - the type of brand, Tesla launching a mobile phone or Emmanuel launching a mobile phone. Tesla has a brand already and it will be easier to build on the existing brand value. What type of product? Who are the target audience.The best answer I can give to this is media planning - right message to right people through the right media and the right time and in right place. Provided you can get all these five things things right, you should be fine.
Dr. Emmanuel Mogaji
Senior Lecturer Advertising and Marketing Communications @ University of Greenwich, London
As I suggest above, this appeal to/for an African agenda is grand romanticism, not real politik. We know from theory and from empirical studies that top-down trickle-down approaches are unlikely to solve Africa's fundamental problems of poverty, illiteracy and disease. A look at AU for instance, suggests we are too focused on being like the UN, instead of recognising our resource constraints and cutting our suit according to our cloth.
But beyond that continental body, what is the value addition of the 12-odd bodies duplicating activities across the continent? Eight of the 15 ECOWAS countries belong to UWEMOA, the only divide being that the latter are Francophone. Among SADC's 15 members, 4 belong to SACU, and 8 belong to COMESA. Some of these countries belonging to multiple organisations, paying millions in membership fees, cannot even feed their people at home!
Good governance requires prudent management of government. The richer countries of Europe have a single primary membership body, EU...and NATO if you like. So why do we allow France to sponsor UWEMOA as a means of dividing ECOWAS?
African countries are burning money they do not have in such organisations; but they also burn money internally through corruption. The bottom line is the failure of good governance on the continent.
Dr. Othieno Nyanjom
Senior Lecturer @ The Technical University of Kenya
Sir Toby, great to read from you. Your wonderful well coined words say more. With all honesty, as the saying goes: everyone, everything have its place in this world we live in.I personally mostly bring back my momentum by listening to motivational speakers. I will say, Entrepreneurs should be very INTENTIONAL in every action taken both for life and for business. Listening to a motivational speaker doesn't help you solve the hard problems before you. They MOTIVATE you to hold on, think harder, ask if need be and keep pushing upward. Entrepreneurs, don't allow everyone be your cup of tea. As you pipe up or down you client search, so should you pipe down the motivations you listen to daily.
Dr. Mofor Clementine Cendoh
Personal Brand Therapist | Bus Consultant | Relationship Counsellor | Content Creator @ NEST Consolidated
My biggest advice to women starting out their careers in tech is to be confident. Often times, I feel that women are discouraged from pursuing highly technical careers because of male dominance or the lack of confidence in their ability to make it happen. One thing that I've realized is that men are not better at women inherently at programming. Removing humility for a moment, I'm probably better than the majority of men in my program at software development. This is because of the confidence that my family and mentors have instilled in me along the way that has allowed me to push through the difficult situations, including failing classes, internship/scholarship/fellowship rejections, and the general abuse that is almost unavoidable as a woman in this field, while developing my skills to a professional level.
My other big piece of advice is to understand that tech is difficult for the majority of people, and to find a community of supporters in your early days. When I first began programming academically 10 years ago, it was nothing like I had ever done before - I had a little experience with web programming and computer architecture, but let me tell you, that introductory C programming course made me cry on several occasions. I actually vowed at one point to never program again. However, I had a community of women around me in computer science and other engineering fields, and they really built me up, helping me learn the concepts in ways that made sense to me, reviewing my problem sets for bugs that I wouldn't have noticed, and giving me confidence that I probably had no business having with my skill level at the time. I wouldn't have had the balls to take some of the risks that I did without the confidence they instilled in me.;It is so important to find a community, and they do exist outside of academia. For example, baddies in tech is a community I'm part of that is provides to support, recruitment and mentorship for black women in their early tech careers.
Ifueko Igbinedion
Doctoral Student @ MIT
I've known I wanted to go to Stanford since I was 11 years old when I read a book that said something like "having a degree from Stanford University is a big deal." From then on I had an almost problematic obsession with doing well in everything so that I would be admitted.Because I knew I wanted to go there, I worked really hard in high school to stand out from my classmates.
I went to a moderately wealthy high school, and competing academically and socially with people that have access to generational wealth takes strategy. I chose to take on 2-3 extracurriculars each year. Freshman year I was the president of the freshman class and captain of the freshman basketball team and played volleyball, Sophomore year I was a chair in the same student government, on varsity basketball and JV volleyball, and participated in the competitive mathematics club. Junior year I cranked up the AP courses, taking essentially everything AP, still playing on Varsity Basketball and Volleyball. Senior year I was captain of the Basketball team along with my other extracurriculars and APs.
There probably were other things, as this was over a decade ago. In terms of academic performance, I was ranked #8 in my class upon graduation with above a 4.8 GPA.Even though I had a strong record, I was still nervous to apply, and so I decided to apply to the Restrictive Early Action round, which means you cannot apply early to any other school, although you are not forced to attend upon acceptance. Luckily I was accepted, and decided to not apply to any other school
While I put myself in a good position to be accepted, nobody else at my school was, including those that had better academic records than me. This could be because of my application essay, in which I told the story of why I have 9 siblings in my family and how that has helped me grow as a person. I think the academic performance and the uniqueness of my story were helpful in standing out from the crowd of perfect transcripts.
Ifueko Igbinedion
Doctoral Student @ MIT
Hello Sarah, I'm glad you found it useful. I just wish I had more experience working with a lot of other brands and also other experts. As you can imagine, our comms team in Oando will not have as many experts in the digital space as an agency that focuses on just digital. In my role, I have been able to work with agencies though so I have picked up a lot from them. I have also just made sure to upskill myself constantly and also worked for other brands in my spare time.
Toyin Jolapamo
Senior Digital Communications Analyst @ Oando Plc
Hello Temiloluwa, I thin you can start with your personal brand - start to build your own brand, do some research and reading, and gain an understanding of social media on your own. I think you should also aim to work at an agency, just to gain as much experience as possible from as many experts and creatives as possible. I always mention Wild Fusions and Anakle - they are two places to gain knowledge from a digital marketing standpoint. I am sure there are a whole lot of other digital agencies that you can get great experience from, but definitely try to start off in an agency.
Toyin Jolapamo
Senior Digital Communications Analyst @ Oando Plc
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The preamble of the African Charter enumerates a list of basic Human Rights norms that must be applied by every state party.
In a bid to bridge the gap between human and People's right and the protection/preservation of different cultural values in Africa , the Charter ensured the creation of the African Commission on Human and People's Rights from its Article 30 et seq.
Article 62 of the charter compels each member state to submit every 2 years a report on the legislative or other measures taken to ensure rights and freedoms recognised and guaranteed by the charter.
Hence in cases of those African countries that still maintain a strong attachment to long standing cultural practices that violate human rights, article le 61 of the charter stipulates that; once such cases are brought before the commission, considerations as subsidiary measures will be made to determine the principles of law , other general or special international conventions, laying down rules expressly recognised by member states of the Organisation of the African Unity, African practices consistent with international norms on human and People's Rights, customs generally accepted by law, general principles of law recognised by African states as well as legal precedents and doctrine .
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