As a creative professional - be it a designer, writer, content creator, digital media marketer, comms specialist, artist, fashion expert, webmaster, etc... - maintaining an up-to-date digital portfolio is essential.

Here is why & here are some sites that can help.

[THREAD] A portfolio is the key to effectively showcasing your skills and experience.

In my opinion, traditional CVs for creative professionals can be overlooked (I personally don't care for them).

Instead, a comprehensive portfolio speaks volumes about your capabilities.

This is how systemic discrimination happens. It is subtle, deliberate, cunning, brazen, & irrational.

It segregates people & destroys lives.

My sister @shapeupafrican staged a one-woman protest on the streets of Hamburg today because teachers failed her daughter.

[THREAD] My niece Jemima is 9.

She is the best in her class. In the top 1% year after year after year. Her results are proof.

She is so good that sometimes, she helps kids in secondary school with their homework (she not in secondary school yet!)

She's a quiet, introverted child.

Time is a diminishing resource. You can never capture times and moments gone...All of time is not the same. There is a time for every purpose and there is a purpose for any time... - @Bollarinwa

[Ecclesiastes 3: 1-3]

3 things about times and seasons: 👇🏿 How do we anticipate the times and seasons?

There is always a lesson God is trying to cause our hearts to discern.

God knows what you are capable of. The gifts that heaven has put on you are not guided by the physical or temporal.

[Mark 11:12-14 then 20-21]

Let me start this thread with definitions, because context is really important these days when we address topical issues.

Women are vulnerable.

Women are constantly "exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed physically or emotionally" because we are women. Last year, I was explaining to a male friend the reason why I don't take certain risks and why I simply refuse to put myself in certain positions he will put himself in without a thought.

He wasn't understanding.

In truth, he didn't get it at all

How many times have you heard the phrase: "All men want is sex?".

Myth.

There are things many men want more than sex.

In fact, there is one thing. And it happens to be the one thing some women find hard to give.

If you like don't learn. Come for me. Due to popular demand, let me explain my thoughts so that some can make informed opinion.

This is not to indict anyone... rather, it's for greater understanding. Sometimes it is important to question things.

Truth be told, we have beautiful fabrics in #Africa.

Bògòlanfini or bogolan is a handmade Malian cotton fabric traditionally dyed with fermented mud. It has an important place in traditional Malian culture & has, more recently, become a symbol of Malian cultural identity. The Ndop, or dze ndouop or nji Ndop cloth is a resist stitched, indido- dyed cloth of Bamileke origin in the Western region of #Cameroon. It is used ceremonies.

📷: @moityuwaifo and son.

On knowledge-acquisition:

It has no expiry date. On hope:

It never dies.
It only grows.

African parlance....

'Tis a beautifully distinct thing to hear.

There are ways we speak that no one else speaks. Whether it's in pidgin, English, French, our dialects... It's unique.

Here are some examples.

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This will be fun so reply with more examples. 😀😁😂 A: I lost the pregnancy.
B: You mean you didn't have the baby?!

A: Dem don kill some thief man for road dey!
B: E die????!

A: Morning oooo!
B: You don wukop?

These are typically snippets of conversations between Caneroonians. 🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲

Some of us need to learn that planning & preparedness translates into success when it meets chance.

Scenario:

You come to Twitter & tweet your business with pictures & the usual "pls RT, my customer maybe on your TL". The kind people on Twitter proceed to RT you to the moon. Next thing, you have 5000, 10000, 50000 RTs, hundreds of thousands of replies, and the DM becomes jammed with follow up questions & orders.

You then go back to original tweet to "thread" that "you are thankful but overwhelmed with responses."

#Cameroon's 'anti-terror' law is being used by authorities to arrest and threaten journalists who are tried by military courts. This is not the first time. Journalists are not terrorists! #FreeMimiMefo voanews.com/amp/cameroon-d… As part of civil society, we've been saying that since the early 2000s, the govt of #Cameroon has put its repression and oppression in policy, creating a legal framework to increasingly punish dissent, stifle free speech & instill fear in anyone who opposes it. #FreeMimiMefo

Africans.

We were not raised to speak up.

In the times we are in, it is out responsibility to raise a generation of people who will turn up their noses at despotic authority and speak truth to power. There are times when being a part of a minority bold enough to fearlessly question authority becomes exasperating & frustrating. Especially when you go at it, expect a following, only to realize you are on your own.

Despite the fact you fighting with truth & for ALL.

SHORT THREAD:

So I just got out of the French embassy in Yaoundé where I went to submit a short-stay visa application. I have been left speechless by the officer at counter 1. @FRauCameroun @G_Thibault_Fr I got there & greeted a cheerful: "hello, good morning". I noticed she did not respond. But that's never an issue.

She took my documents & proceeded to take the ones she didn't need & silently "throw" them back at me.

Still not a problem. You must bear with them. 😀