Open letter to a new generation, keynote delivered by Funmi Iyanda at the ThinkOyo 30under30 awards recently. Read below...
The thing about age is, it is catching.
It’s like a hysterical jester lying in wait for the fool.
I want to tell you about Mrs Okoro. Before l turned nine, school was a vaguely
irritating distraction from the pursuit of happiness in play and adventure.
Every school day, I’d wear my red checked dress and burgundy beret uniform and
passively submitto school. l was not a rebellious child. I was a bored child
who daydreamed through classes until lunch when the school served asaro and
chicken with bananas and ground nuts as snacks. That was until l got to Mrs
Okoro’s class.
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