Funmi Akerele

Hello Sis, This is coming from the deepest of my heart, I felt a strong need to share this with you. A lot I have written about fearless females; a lot I have written on inspiration to spur you to your feet. I believe you  have the right to know as I have shared the need for girls and women to believe, to seek knowledge that brings endless possibilities especially for those who have felt the need in one way or the other to do away with their tiara. “It doesn't matter where a girl comes from as long as she knows where she is going”. ...I heard the whispers of a young girl in the hallway and she was silently stringing her skirt in her hands with eyes downcast and courage you could purchase for a nothing dollar. ...I saw the hunger in the young lady eyes, as she eyes the man behind the wheels; she saw opulence but his brake failure is due in two hours. ...I saw the haunted look on the face of the woman who viewed her wares as nothing but “pieces of shit”, not knowing that the next ...

Pink Ambition: “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have ... : “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child”  - Shakespeare I never thought it would happened I lost my nerves. ...

“How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child”  - Shakespeare I never thought it would happened I lost my nerves. It was just one of those days, when you feel the sky is below and the earth is above Grimly despondent Staring emptily in a dead hawk gaze I  couldn't believe everything has not conspired against  me Have I really been blessed? I love music boxes; but when the song from a box from an ear range  streamed the song “count your blessings”, I gained the nerve to crush it. “what blessings”  I have lost some people this year I had failed expectations I lost contacts and contracts I expected business to have moved a notch higher I lost a fetus I depended on  some, was left down by many I took a step of faith, but fate dealt with me silently, I  wore clothes many wished were not for my skin I toiled, Some months and  days have grumbled over the next ones Some have been happily wished away Some have ...

Though the elevator only goes to the top floor, there is always a staircase to the roof. Vincent Steininger  Music boxes can be purchased anywhere.The songs from it are pre-recorded. Everyday listen may bore the heart and the music box ca n break off due to various replay. But some music boxes never stop playing- Our strong convictions. Our motivation. We are the world’s greatest soldiers- Women. We sing, hum and retain the music after the music box has finally found a resting abode.The songs of our hearts is like the deftness of our hands, working rigorously and gently to weave the idea we want to see. The story of business as told by my grandmother will never fail to amuse me. She said life is a wrapper we must tie around our waist or chest. She said the modern woman ties the wrapper on her waist because she has gained enough wisdom on the disadvantages of the wrapper on her chest. But the traditional woman ties the wrapper on her chest because the wrapped chest serve a lot of ...

*How does one mourn a friend?  Lara’s funeral is on Friday.  It’s been a long week for me and I am still confused.  My somehow scheduled and organize life has gone berserk, since the day I found the neigbourhood gathered in front of our house. Right in the midst of the confusion, our popular grapevine, the woman beside everybody’s house was able to share the story with much breaking news dexterity  “they said she just had her bath and she tripped and fell down their expensive staircase”.  That was our popular grapevine side to the story; she was always the first on the scene and no one has ever tried to beat her to it. But I knew that  wasn't  the story, I can bet my life  that the story was different. So I rushed to their apartment to ascertain if my friend and only neighbour; the landlord’s wife was truly dead. I met Tade, the deceased husband in tears.  Our eyes met, he looked down to look up again and confirm that my friend had t...

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...I am here I am more than enough I have so much to give I posses the strength to make things happen The strength to conceive... The idea And GET UP. ...Every idea is an ideal mountain top, only climbed by those little droplets of hungry sweats, brave enough   to encroach roundabout the calluses or smoothness of life. I am here, I am more than enough I took the bet, more like a dare to climb Knowing fully well I have so much to loose The ladder we all climb seems glossy Yet the slippery happenstance is usually for those who hold the ladder with wet hands,wet flip flops intending to climb. Slippery is good. It exposes our dynamism  They say the view at the top remains the best, yet with unwavering dexterity and a god-damn attitude -- only few idea -list climb. Inevitable are the results they meet :  concrete justice, or mountaintop justice. I am here I am more than enough I have so much to give The ladder is a disguise, ...

...acknowledging that our actions,beliefs,words and emotion are not the best choices is a state where we evaluate our selves and choose who we are and who we want to be. For those things you do,for the ones you have done, and for those yo u are about to do, once you get to a state that you P.A.C (Pause. Acknowledge and Clear your mind) before you act, then you have began to choose who you are and what to become. Emotional intelligent people are ordinary people who have mastered and aligned their emotions as well as others to yield positive results and actions to make impact in their workplace, relationship, career and lives. To choose yourself there must be a continuous evaluation of your emotion and thoughts before it culminate into any activity. What is the result of your choice action? I have chosen to love my life by aligning my thoughts and emotions to understand, evaluate and often re-evaluate what I want to do, how I do things and why I want to do it. To choose yourself; int...

Politics can be a pool of dirty tricks.  This is a global phenomenon and female politicians face the brunt of strict political environment, political violence, physical as well as sexual assault , abuse, and under -representation due to no support as well as gender discrimination prevalent in politics. Marginalization of women in politics in Nigeria can thoroughly be addressed by the support of women for women. The level of representation of women in politics in Nigeria is disheartening, yet the advantages for more female representation is huge. Women are the bedrock of the society and also a veritable tool of development in any society. There are so many hindrances aside marginalization or gender disparity, women politicians face but one winning edge to all these challenges is when we have more women supporting women in politics. Our value system is not encouraging, as women politicians are viewed as thieves who support the looting of the treasury. The wags of tongues and t...

Every day living is an emotional experience and moments for females of all ag e s.  Everyday w e live on the edge or in fullness of an emotion w hich may either be borne out of experience , situations or long tales shared by som e one believed by so many. Aggravat ed, grumpy, defensive, radiant, d ejected, j oyous, over w he l med, j ealous, zealous, ever cranky, moody, depressed, confident, elated, never sati sfied, happy, envious, always visibly annoyed , resourcefully happy, comfortable, composed, good natured, dejected, emotionally imbalance,easily irr itated, understanding, agitated, unease , argumentative, frustratingly simple, frustrated, determined,purposeful e.t.c . Emotion guides everything we do. We are wired up with emotions that if not rightly checked can either make or break us. To navigate life challenges and stand out as exceptionally as w e want, our emotions must be played intelligently, which means , you must understand your self and your emotions . ...

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I know about accidents. I have seen accidents. The fatal ones, the tear-guts and all likes; I once had an accident, but none of these accidents have made impact on me like the ones that left horrible scars.   The aftermath, the recuperation, the denial, the resignation, all form the visible and invisible scars that mar our beauty.   I know of scars that never heal, I know of scars that heal faster than the “scarer”, and I also know of scars that heal completely without medication. Everyone has a scar. Everyone carries scar. Everyone deals with their scars differently. Tell me what I dont know; that the scars left by a pain can be easily forgotten? One thing I know is “it is dangerous to abandon one’s self to the luxury of grief: It deprives one of courage and even of the wish for recovery”. Eryca Freemantle had no idea of what destiny or the over 200 scars that mar her face will do to her life, after her near death accident. At that time physicians, psychologi...

There will never be a generation of great men until there has been a generation of free women -- of free mothers. - Robert G. Ingersoll.  #BringBackOurGirls Remember...Believe...Knowledge...Opportunities (Pink Ambition)  www.facebook.com/pinkambitions www.pinkambition1.blogspot.com (C) Funmi Akerele

  The butterfly attractiveness derives not only from colours and symmetry: deeper motives contribute to it . - Primo Levi. Succeessful people are regular people.  Some had the same amount of opportunities while others had none. Their similarities are not hidden, yet difficult for some to see. Some see their successes as a carbon copy while others copy their successes to the carbon. Ideas are different inspirations given on different platforms for differnt reasons to satisfy different purposes. Two ideas may look the same but none is totally like the other except copied and pasted. Thus, inspirations or ideas left unactivated will go away; Perhaps the law of gravity.   Our ability to receive and work with any idea is expantiated by the tale of the sower; only those who receive the dreams, develop the passsion and worked at it have the similarities seen in succesful people. I once asked in ignorance, are some born successful? Yes they are born,and re-c...