Abbey's Gist

With summer jobs on the horizon, professionals recall the first jobs that launched their careers. #CareerLaunch  In the summer of 1971, I was babysitting for Mrs. Hackleberry for 50 cents an hour. I entered the Miss Fire Prevention contest sponsored by my local radio station WVOL in Nashville. Everyone, especially me, was shocked when I won.  When I went back to the radio station to claim my prize, a Longines watch and a "digital" clock radio, the local DJ saw me looking around in awe.  "Have you ever heard your voice on tape?” he asked. “Think you could read this?”  He tore some wire copy, adjusted the mic, and rolled tape as I began to speak. I hadn’t finished three sentences before he called for another guy, then another, to "come listen to this kid read.” I left the station that day with the biggest prize of all — my first job in broadcasting. I was 17 years old. 

" It was Grace who driving pass  Agueke  on her way back,would become haunted by the image of a destroyed village and would go to London and to Paris and to  Onicha ,sifting through moldy files in archives,reimagining the lives and smell of her grandmother's world for the book she would write.................................But that day as she sat at her grandmother's bedside in the fading evening light,Grace was not contemplating her future.she simply held her grandmother's hand,the palm thickened from making pottery." This short story totally caught my attention,its one of the stories in the Famous "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie" book THE THING AROUND YOUR NECK". You should also read AMERICANAH. I know some people who thinks that the Feminist movement was brought to African women by the western world,but this story made me realise it has always been in Existence in the African setting. African feminism owes its origin to different dynamics than those t...