by fisayo | Jan 25, 2022 | Social Impact, WAEC Scholarship Scheme
50% of the beneficiaries of the ‘Fisayo Ogundoro WAEC scholarship passed the exam with distinction, 80% excel in Mathematics and English For my birthday in 2021, I organized a scholarship fund to sponsor the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) exam for...
by fisayo | Jan 3, 2022 | Gender Discourse, Social Issues, social policy, Work and labor
Image by Lucy Guiterrez (Copied from NYtimes) Women’s labor market participation in Africa and the West can be traced back to the impact of the second world war, feminism, and women’s emancipation movements. As a result of women’s labor market...
by fisayo | Nov 18, 2021 | Gender Discourse, Social Issues, Uncategorized
I saw the words below in a JPEG format as a post on the Instagram handle of Mother Honestly (@motherhonestly). It’s time to unlearn thedefinition of motherhoodyou saw growing up. Theone where a motherconstantly breaks herback, without support. I loved it. I made...
by fisayo | Oct 19, 2021 | Poems, Social Issues
I thought I would easily forget Alas, here I am wondering if the protest happened The polices in their cloaks Shooting Tear-gassing Burning cars Killing Maiming The soldiers in their cloaks Shooting “blanks” At harmless young Nigerians From Abuja, Lagos, Ibadan,...
by fisayo | Aug 26, 2021 | Movie Review, Movie review, Social Issues, Uncategorized
The King of Boys movie made the Nigerian cinemas in 2018 and by 2019 it was on Netflix. The movie is coming back on Netflix on August 27, 2021, as a 7-part series and a Netflix original production and not as a Nigerian cinema production. This is an anticipated...
by fisayo | Aug 12, 2021 | Social Issues
Turning and turning in the widening gyreThe falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.W.B Yeats, Second Coming 1920 This stanza from W.B Yeats’s 1920 poem The Second Coming begs wholesome...
by fisayo | Aug 5, 2021 | Poems
By Frank Mckenna This is life Life, the eternal A space of memories A space of experiences Where you think all is forever Like, nothing changes This, though, some people think But for ‘some other some,’ life Ups and downs Highs or lows Good or bad Rich or poor In the...
by fisayo | Jul 29, 2021 | Gender Discourse, Social Issues, Work and labor
Those who are not familiar with conversations within the labor market, human rights, and migration studies might perhaps not be familiar with the term “modern slavery.” Modern slavery employs force and exploitation as a means of getting people to work or perform other...
by fisayo | Jul 21, 2021 | Gender Discourse, Lifestyle, Social Issues
Recently, I have had to dialogue on the subject of feminism with some friends. And a question that often pops up in these discussions is, “Who is the head of the home?” This is because some of the folks asking this question are of the opinion that feminism does not...
by fisayo | Jul 14, 2021 | Gender Discourse, Social Issues
I run a food business-Fisayoskitchen. An African meal business where I aim to provide individuals and families in the United States with homemade delicious Nigerian favorites. Recently, I have had people ask me, “Is it that you love cooking?” I guess this is because...
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