Samuel Koranteng Pipim - Wish You a Happy New Year 2014

We have almost completed 2013 successfully and now we shall enter in the year 2014. I wish that whatever is in your mind an for what you had been praying during the past years, those wishes and desires may be fulfilled and what are new plans in your mind those could be executed during this new year and you may become a successful and satisfied person. I hope that you would be conducting introspection and whatever bad had been done, that shall be ignored and you would find out a new path for your life and you would spend the raining part of your life on the right path chosen by you. I wish that all your hidden desires which had not shared with anyone may be fulfilled provided those are not sins, crimes and misconducts, as per norms of the society. I pray for you and wish that your children, parents, brothers and sisters should be near to you and they may function with you people sent from the side of God.

I pray that there should be peace around you and you shall be taking steps towards progress and attainments. I pray that God himself should come down on earth and merge all the religions into one and unite all this mankind and all shall start loving each other and all this division of mankind on the basis of religions, castes, color and creed shall end all shall start living as members of one family headed by God. I wish that all this illiteracy, unemployment, poverty shall go and people shall be earning their own livelihood and there shall be no beggar. I wish that there should be no difference between rich and poor and all should be economically equal. I wish that there should be no divorce and all marred people should live a happy life full of love and affection. The people should serve their parents and there should be no curse from the side of elders.

I wish that all may get fulfilled their desires and wishes during this 2014.

Samuel Koranteng Pipim, the Executive Director of EAGLESonline, is a respected writer and mobilizer of African youth and young professionals, both on the continent and Diaspora.  

HAPPILY EVER LAUGHTER

Those who seldom laugh are among the most dangerous in the world. But the Christmas story assures us that not even such Herods can kill the joy of those who seek the One whose birth has brought “good tidings of great joy” (Luke 2; Matthew 2). So learn to laugh at your circumstances. Laughter is an effective weapon against fear, worry, gloom, depression, resentment, self-pity, and hurt. The hard blows of life will try to bend you out of shape, but laughter will keep you resilient. So whether yours is the quiet laugh of Sarah (Genesis 18:1-15; 21:1-6), the season’s boom of Ho, ho, ho…, or the regular hearty Ha, ha, ha... or He, he, he…, let’s all live happily ever laughter. Merry Xmas!—Samuel Koranteng Pipim

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A 4-Day Excellence, Leadership and Empowerment Lecture Series

 

Africa Must Think- A 4-Day Excellence, Leadership and Empowerment Lecture Series for Change Makers and Transformative Leaders in Africa

Samuel Koranteng Pipim

THE AFRICAN LION: A TRIBUTE TO NELSON MANDELA

Our EAGLESonline team was in Zimbabwe for an "Africa Must Think" public lecture series when Nelson Mandela died on the night of December 5, 2013. The  statement below was issued on December 6, 2013 during a media reception held in our honor by the Zimbabwe Minister of Tourism & Hospitality. --Samuel Koranteng Pipim

Thursday night, December 5, 2013, was supposed to have marked the conclusion of our “Africa Must Think” public lecture series at the prestigious Harare International Conference Center in Zimbabwe. The message that night, titled “The African Chicken,” was prefaced by spotlighting the courageous leadership of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah which was not appreciated until after his death and which stands in bold contrast to the “chicken” leadership that is all too common today. The presentation challenged Africans that, much more than ever before, failure is not an option, and it ought not be final.

The night’s presentation, “The African Chicken,” followed earlier ones on “The African Elephant,”“The African Eagle,” and “The African Gold,” metaphors used to describe Africa and the African condition. But the death of Nelson Mandela after the meetings were over gave rise to popular demand for the scheduling of one additional lecture the next day under the title “The African Lion.”