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58: Schools for Africans

It took fifty miles of cycling and the best part of a thousand pounds to reach Senegal. I rode with school friends to raise the money. The proceeds would buy me passage across the Atlantic. The bike ride was from Cambridge to London—more miles than I’d ever pedalled...

Swimming vs Thrashing

Life isn't easy. You're dropped in a body of water at birth with no instruction manual. Some people have the privilege of extensive training and signposts, but many of us have no idea where to go or how to get there. Nobody will teach you how...

Modes of Thinking

The modern world has convinced us to divide our time into discrete blocks labelled "work," "play," and "sleep." Of the three, only one is completed in the workplace. In our 24-hour day, we are not permitted to shift between these blocks or mix them....

We should all be artists

We study the greats. From a young age, we all naturally gravitate towards art. We scribble, draw, and paint - even if it’s just to make a mess. Art is something children do instinctively. Since humanity’s primal ages we’ve made art. Faces on clay vases. Stick figures...

What Really Matters

My whole life I've been discovering the pain of things that matter and things that don't. I was never at any single school for more than 3 consecutive years. For the most part, these changes were largely innocuous. I moved from Lagos to London, danced around...

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