Share Our experience of ourselves and the world is shaped by what we believe to be true about who are are as human beings. There are cultural and societal conversations about what a human being is capable of that we absorb, make our own and live inside of. Before Roger Bannister ran the 4-minute mile, [...]

Share When the ashes clear from this economic Armageddon, the only organizations left standing will be the ones that actually stand for something. Without a purpose that improves people’s lives, and contributes to the greater good, organizations will struggle. Roy M Spence, from “It’s Not What You Sell, It’s What You Stand For”

Share In October, the Aspen Institute will be holding a 1.5 day forum in which business leaders and thinkers will come together to look at vital question: “How do you measure success?” They will explore some key questions including: What constitutes a healthy society? How do personal criteria for success influence the way we do [...]

Share Thought of the day: If the success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do, how would I be? What would I do? – R. Buckminster Fuller

Share I had a good chat today with Anil Dash, who is an awesome thinker, a  pioneer in the tech world and someone who sees, lives and works on  the connection between technology and culture. He is (among other  things) Director at Expert Labs which is doing some great work  interfacing policy makers with technology [...]

Share The BP oil spill has everyone focussed on the environment again. There’s  lot of anger, hopelessness and upset about yet another issue that seems to be leading to global environmental death and destruction. The other day someone asked me what I thought about what’s happening in the world from an environmental perspective (BP oil [...]

Share On a post I wrote some time ago about stereotypes of Africa in the media, one of my readers made a comment that I thought was spot on. He wrote: Lola, the big part of the problem is with us Africans, lies within our own perceptions of our own selves as Africans….If we can [...]

Share As the World Cup gets underway, each day I’ll presenting at least one positive perspective on Africa and something that’s going on that I think will be of interest to you. Today I’m presenting an award-winning documentary film called Football Fables which has recently opened in London. Hopefully we can get it to come [...]

Share The Hunger Project is an organization which empowers people to end their own hunger and poverty. Yes, you heard that right – they work with people to end their own hunger and poverty. I met with them last week, and am massively inspired by what they do and their commitment to people and the [...]

Share Yesterday, while traveling on a bus, I found myself being the mediator of a heated argument that almost turned into a fight. The young black lady sitting next to me had been listening to music on her headphones, but it was so loud that she may as well have been playing it out loud. [...]