Through my advocacy for young women to be involved in politics, I realised the issues young girls and young women face are not mutually exclusive; they are interwoven and linked at every turn. For example, a lack of access to quality education or gender-based violence impacts young women’s involvement and...

The U.S. Diplomatic Mission in Nigeria is thrilled to announce the selection of 56 outstanding young Nigerians for the 2024 Mandela Washington Fellowship programme. This year marks the programme’s 10th anniversary, celebrating a decade of investing in Africa’s future leaders. These fellows, chosen through a rigorous selection process, will embark...

In Mid-March, I was ecstatic to discover that I had been chosen for the Mandela Washington Fellowship in Nigeria. To be one of the 54 chosen leaders out of 20,000 applications in my country is no mean feat. My next point of excitement was finding out I had been chosen...

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.Martin Luther King. I said this quote when I and my fellow YALI colleagues were able to jump on a podcast and talk about – Constitution Building Across Continents. During the Mandela Washington Fellowship, we had the opportunity...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a short opinion piece on Nigeria, which was published in @eienigeria’s column in Business Day. The article focused on our democratic development and how events of the past continue to hinder our progress toward becoming the great nation we need it to be....